Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 187
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 8, 1998, 1:45 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1998, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 76 counties
Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, Swain County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Bristol, VA
Warnings issued inside it
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne | 58 min |
| Apr 8, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Floyd, Polk | 51 min |
| Apr 8, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Bartow | 29 min |
| Apr 8, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gordon | 53 min |
| Apr 8, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Cherokee, Cobb, Paulding | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gilmer, Murray | 26 min |
| Apr 8, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Forsyth, Fulton | 38 min |
| Apr 8, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Gwinnett, Hall | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee | 61 min |
| Apr 8, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Clayton, Henry | 34 min |
| Apr 8, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | DeKalb, Rockdale | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 348 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 520 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 10 more | 5 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 |
| Apr 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Bertie, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Cumberland, Fentress, Grainger and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, McNairy and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 31 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 1998Tornado Watches in Tennessee, 1998Tornado 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.