Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 95
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 8, 1998, 11:45 AM CST for 16 counties in Alabama; 71 counties in Georgia; McCormick County, South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 1998, 11:45 AM CST (17:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 88 counties
Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:35 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 12:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 12:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Coweta, Fayette | 29 min |
| Mar 8, 1:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Heard | 23 min |
| Mar 8, 1:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Fulton | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 1:35 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Columbia | 3 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 2:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Houston | 34 min |
| Mar 8, 3:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Barbour, Russell | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bullock, Pike | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Muscogee | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore | 33 min |
| Mar 8, 3:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, St. Clair, Talladega | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 4:09 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Randolph | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Tallapoosa | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 514 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 9:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barbour, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Escambia and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 52 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 8:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Horry | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 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.