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Tornado Watch 158

April 3, 199811 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Georgia; 43 counties in Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 3, 1998, 1:00 PM CST for 11 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Georgia; 43 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 1998, 1:00 PM CST (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 1998, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 64 counties

Blount County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Winston County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Dade County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Murray County, GA, Polk County, GA, Walker County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Claiborne 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 1:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Lincoln	29 min
Apr 3, 1:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Franklin	48 min
Apr 3, 1:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	33 min
Apr 3, 2:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Grundy, Marion	48 min
Apr 3, 2:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford	62 min
Apr 3, 2:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson, Madison	46 min
Apr 3, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	49 min
Apr 3, 2:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford, Marshall	48 min
Apr 3, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb, Warren	62 min
Apr 3, 3:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan, Roane	28 min
Apr 3, 3:04 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jackson	36 min
Apr 3, 3:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Coffee	32 min
Apr 3, 3:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	DeKalb	50 min
Apr 3, 3:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MRX	Meigs, Rhea	44 min
Apr 3, 3:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Smith, Trousdale, Wilson	64 min
Apr 3, 3:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Anderson	43 min
Apr 3, 3:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Macon	64 min
Apr 3, 3:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade, Walker	38 min
Apr 3, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Grundy, Marion, Sequatchie	49 min
Apr 3, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	48 min
Apr 3, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Knox, Union	45 min
Apr 3, 3:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Walker	29 min
Apr 3, 3:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln	32 min
Apr 3, 3:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson	31 min
Apr 3, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MRX	Bradley, Hamilton	45 min
Apr 3, 4:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Rutherford, Wilson	49 min
Apr 3, 4:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne, Grainger	67 min
Apr 3, 4:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	36 min
Apr 3, 4:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Coffee	50 min
Apr 3, 4:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison, Marshall	31 min
Apr 3, 4:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Clay, Jackson, Overton, Pickett	65 min
Apr 3, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Cannon	32 min
Apr 3, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	47 min
Apr 3, 4:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	33 min
Apr 3, 4:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	DeKalb	33 min
Apr 3, 4:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Bedford	51 min
Apr 3, 4:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Blount, Knox	38 min
Apr 3, 4:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	DeKalb	35 min
Apr 3, 4:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Fentress	44 min
Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	63 min
Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MRX	Blount, Knox	28 min
Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Franklin, Lincoln	48 min
Apr 3, 4:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MRX	Fentress	53 min
Apr 3, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	White	32 min
Apr 3, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Warren	50 min
Apr 3, 4:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Monroe	34 min
Apr 3, 4:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Putnam	32 min
Apr 3, 5:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Gordon	25 min
Apr 3, 5:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MRX	Cumberland	52 min
Apr 3, 5:10 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	Van Buren, Warren	50 min
Apr 3, 5:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Marion, Sequatchie	49 min
Apr 3, 5:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MRX	Hamilton, Meigs, Rhea	52 min
Apr 3, 5:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OHX	White	32 min
Apr 3, 5:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Lincoln, Marshall	49 min
Apr 3, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	33 min
Apr 3, 5:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Scott	44 min
Apr 3, 5:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	McMinn	40 min
Apr 3, 5:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb, Jackson	63 min
Apr 3, 5:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Morgan, Roane	58 min
Apr 3, 5:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Campbell	58 min
Apr 3, 5:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Cumberland	26 min
Apr 3, 5:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bedford, Rutherford	49 min
Apr 3, 5:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Bledsoe	51 min
Apr 3, 6:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	35 min
Apr 3, 6:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Bradley, McMinn, Monroe, Polk	65 min
Apr 3, 6:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Walker, Whitfield	48 min
Apr 3, 6:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Meigs, Rhea	32 min
Apr 3, 6:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hamilton	30 min
Apr 3, 6:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OHX	Coffee, Grundy	48 min
Apr 3, 6:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	49 min
Apr 3, 6:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Gilmer, Murray	45 min
Apr 3, 6:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	33 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 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
Apr 3, 7:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler, Calhoun and 45 more	6 hr
Apr 3, 10:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Russell	5 hr
Apr 3, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Russell	6 hr
Apr 3, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Fannin, Gilmer, Rabun, Towns, Union	6 hr
Apr 3, 12:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 32 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.