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Tornado Watch 164

April 3, 19984 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 3, 1998, 9:00 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 1998, 9:00 PM CST (03:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 1998, 3:00 AM CST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 113 counties

Russell County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Hart County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Screven County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 9:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Jones	27 min
Apr 3, 9:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Newberry	67 min
Apr 3, 9:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Upson	27 min
Apr 3, 9:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	CAE	Lexington	56 min
Apr 3, 9:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Putnam	36 min
Apr 3, 9:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McDuffie	47 min
Apr 3, 9:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bibb, Twiggs	43 min
Apr 3, 9:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	43 min
Apr 3, 9:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hancock	53 min
Apr 3, 9:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia	64 min
Apr 3, 9:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Twiggs, Wilkinson	48 min
Apr 3, 9:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Crawford, Taylor	39 min
Apr 3, 10:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richmond	56 min
Apr 3, 10:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Sumter	56 min
Apr 3, 10:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	ILM	Bladen	33 min
Apr 3, 10:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	FFC	Johnson, Laurens	26 min
Apr 3, 10:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	32 min
Apr 3, 10:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel, Jefferson, Johnson, Laurens	48 min
Apr 3, 10:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Barnwell	45 min
Apr 3, 10:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence	35 min
Apr 3, 10:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg	35 min
Apr 3, 11:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Marion	33 min
Apr 3, 11:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Treutlen	27 min
Apr 3, 11:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	34 min
Apr 3, 11:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Emanuel	26 min
Apr 3, 11:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Laurens	26 min
Apr 3, 11:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Treutlen	39 min
Apr 4, 12:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	35 min

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 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, 8:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alamance, Anson, Bertie, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham and 42 more	7 hr
Apr 3, 11:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 12 more	6 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in Georgia, 1998 Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 1998 Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 1998 Every 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.