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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 652

June 24, 19985 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 24, 1998, 2:30 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 1998, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 81 counties

Bath County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Alexander County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Carter	35 min
Jun 24, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott	47 min
Jun 24, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell, Rutherford	42 min
Jun 24, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sullivan	35 min
Jun 24, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd	44 min
Jun 24, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Carter	33 min
Jun 24, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	32 min
Jun 24, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	34 min
Jun 24, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Knott	46 min
Jun 24, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	47 min
Jun 24, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	63 min
Jun 24, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd	47 min
Jun 24, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Dickenson	34 min
Jun 24, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise	55 min
Jun 24, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Letcher	50 min
Jun 24, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Greene, Hawkins	33 min
Jun 24, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Russell, Scott	63 min
Jun 24, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Grayson, Smyth	32 min
Jun 24, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	63 min
Jun 24, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Greene, Hawkins	62 min
Jun 24, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Carter, Sullivan, Washington	63 min
Jun 24, 5:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	MRX	Sullivan, Washington	4 hr
Jun 24, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Johnson	64 min
Jun 24, 5:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Transylvania	2 hr
Jun 24, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Greene, Hamblen, Hawkins	63 min
Jun 24, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cocke	64 min
Jun 24, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson	31 min

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 252 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: 326 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 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 24, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Hancock	4 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.