Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 163
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 3, 1998, 9:15 PM EST for 48 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 1998, 9:15 PM EST (02:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1998, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 9:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 54 min |
| Apr 3, 9:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 10:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 10:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 11:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 11:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 17 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1030 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 12:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 12 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in North 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.