Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 184
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 8, 1998, 10:30 AM CDT for 24 counties in Alabama; 41 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1998, 10:30 AM CDT (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 10:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 10:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 11:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale | 62 min |
| Apr 8, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 11:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 45 min |
| Apr 8, 11:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 11:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 63 min |
| Apr 8, 12:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 48 min |
| Apr 8, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Colquitt, Tift | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Sumter, Webster | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Dodge, Wilcox | 26 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 880 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
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 8, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, DeKalb, Etowah, St. Clair | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chambers, Lee, Randolph | 7 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 1998Tornado Watches in Alabama, 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.