Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 6
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 7, 1998, 10:00 PM EST for 29 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 1998, 10:00 PM EST (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1998, 3:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 652 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 7:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Elbert, Emanuel, Glascock, Greene and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn, Liberty and 5 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
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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.