Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 587
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 1998, 5:00 PM EDT for 44 counties in North Carolina; 5 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1998, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1998, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Alamance County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, Greensville County, VA
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chowan | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton, City of Franklin | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Tyrrell | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 48 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Augusta, Bath, Bland and 40 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Accomack, Amelia, Arlington, Brunswick, Caroline, Charles City and 51 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 1998Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1998
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.