Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 119
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Mar 20, 1998, 7:00 PM EST for 38 counties in North Carolina; 6 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 1998, 7:00 PM EST (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 1998, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Alamance County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pender County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 7:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Wake | 30 min |
| Mar 20, 7:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 7:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 7:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 39 min |
| Mar 20, 7:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 46 min |
| Mar 20, 7:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 7:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 33 min |
| Mar 20, 7:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Warren | 46 min |
| Mar 20, 7:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 47 min |
| Mar 20, 8:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 48 min |
| Mar 20, 8:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marion | 33 min |
| Mar 20, 8:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 8:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 36 min |
| Mar 20, 8:24 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 8:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 8:30 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Robeson | 35 min |
| Mar 20, 8:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 8:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marion | 28 min |
| Mar 20, 8:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Granville | 49 min |
| Mar 20, 8:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Durham, Wake | 36 min |
| Mar 20, 9:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 9:08 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Orange | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 9:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 9:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 41 min |
| Mar 20, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 20 min |
| Mar 20, 9:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Vance | 33 min |
| Mar 20, 9:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham | 30 min |
| Mar 20, 9:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 18 min |
| Mar 20, 10:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash, Wilson | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 10:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene, Pitt | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 1998Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 1998Every tornado 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.