Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 596
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 16, 1998, 4:15 PM EDT for Saint Mary's County, Somerset County, Maryland; 23 counties in North Carolina; 64 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1998, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 89 counties
Saint Mary's County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Accomack County, VA, Albemarle County, VA, Amelia County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Essex County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King George County, VA, King William County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, Nelson County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Orange County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Spotsylvania County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
31 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Greene, Madison | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, City of Charlottesville | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Nelson | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Charlotte | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Lunenburg | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 22 min |
| Jun 16, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Nottoway | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 5:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville | 27 min |
| Jun 16, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Louisa | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Powhatan | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Orange | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Mecklenburg | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Vance | 18 min |
| Jun 16, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chesterfield | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Brunswick | 36 min |
| Jun 16, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, City of Charlottesville | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Spotsylvania | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton, Sussex | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Essex, Richmond, Westmoreland | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Caroline | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Isle of Wight, City of Franklin | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Suffolk | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Saint Mary's | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Hampton, City of Newport News | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Chesapeake, City of Norfolk, City of Portsmouth | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 33 min |
| Jun 16, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Northampton | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Somerset, Wicomico | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 16, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baltimore, Caroline, Cecil, Harford, Kent, Queen Anne's and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland and 19 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Maryland, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.