Alert archive / Tennessee / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 98
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 8, 1998, 3:45 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 1998, 3:45 PM CST (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 108 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Troup County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Cherokee County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Moore County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Smith County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Wilson County, TN
Warnings issued inside it
19 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 3:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Walker, Whitfield | 44 min |
| Mar 8, 3:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Marion | 52 min |
| Mar 8, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 50 min |
| Mar 8, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, St. Clair, Talladega | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 61 min |
| Mar 8, 4:09 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Randolph | 5 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison, Morgan | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 4:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 51 min |
| Mar 8, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Grundy | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Van Buren | 30 min |
| Mar 8, 5:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 5:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | White | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 5:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 18 min |
| Mar 8, 5:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 48 min |
| Mar 8, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 45 min |
| Mar 8, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Tallapoosa | 35 min |
| Mar 8, 5:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 17 min |
| Mar 8, 6:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 51 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 409 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
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, 11:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Escambia and 4 more | 6 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 | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Chowan, Columbus and 24 more | 6 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.