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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 615

June 19, 199816 counties in Alabama; 65 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 19, 1998, 10:30 AM CDT for 16 counties in Alabama; 65 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 1998, 10:30 AM CDT (15:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1998, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 81 counties

Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Randolph County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Union County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:30 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

48 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 10:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Haralson	31 min
Jun 19, 10:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton	33 min
Jun 19, 10:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Paulding	33 min
Jun 19, 10:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	35 min
Jun 19, 10:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gwinnett	34 min
Jun 19, 11:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	32 min
Jun 19, 11:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham	32 min
Jun 19, 11:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Carroll, Douglas, Fulton	36 min
Jun 19, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	32 min
Jun 19, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Walton	32 min
Jun 19, 11:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	36 min
Jun 19, 11:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	34 min
Jun 19, 11:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	34 min
Jun 19, 11:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clayton, Fayette	31 min
Jun 19, 11:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	44 min
Jun 19, 11:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Coweta	35 min
Jun 19, 11:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	36 min
Jun 19, 12:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Henry, Rockdale	49 min
Jun 19, 12:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	32 min
Jun 19, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Butts, Lamar, Spalding	36 min
Jun 19, 12:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Pike	33 min
Jun 19, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Monroe	32 min
Jun 19, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Greene, Morgan, Putnam	32 min
Jun 19, 12:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	35 min
Jun 19, 12:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Upson	48 min
Jun 19, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Lamar, Pike	33 min
Jun 19, 1:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Meriwether	36 min
Jun 19, 1:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock, Taliaferro	47 min
Jun 19, 1:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Heard	34 min
Jun 19, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Tallapoosa	31 min
Jun 19, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Baldwin, Jones	35 min
Jun 19, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford, Monroe, Taylor	48 min
Jun 19, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot	48 min
Jun 19, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee	31 min
Jun 19, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Macon	32 min
Jun 19, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Harris	33 min
Jun 19, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Troup	36 min
Jun 19, 1:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	47 min
Jun 19, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	31 min
Jun 19, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee	35 min
Jun 19, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Talbot, Taylor	48 min
Jun 19, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Crawford	34 min
Jun 19, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chattahoochee, Muscogee	34 min
Jun 19, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	32 min
Jun 19, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Upson	50 min
Jun 19, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Macon, Taylor	49 min
Jun 19, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton, Coosa	30 min
Jun 19, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	32 min

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 76 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1794 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1186 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 19, 12:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 46 more	5 hr
Jun 19, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Chatham	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1998 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 1998 Every 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.