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Tornado Watch 188

April 8, 199837 counties in Alabama; Chattooga County, Georgia; 38 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 8, 1998, 2:00 PM CDT for 37 counties in Alabama; Chattooga County, Georgia; 38 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 1998, 2:00 PM CDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 1998, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 76 counties

Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Lee County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Chattooga County, GA, Attala County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Union County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee	47 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, 5:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Elmore	51 min
Apr 8, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Noxubee, Winston	42 min
Apr 8, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Tallapoosa	48 min
Apr 8, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Humphreys, Leflore	47 min
Apr 8, 5:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Lafayette	46 min
Apr 8, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Holmes	41 min
Apr 8, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Noxubee	51 min
Apr 8, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Carroll	46 min
Apr 8, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lafayette	31 min
Apr 8, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker, Winston	46 min
Apr 8, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Pontotoc	31 min
Apr 8, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	35 min
Apr 8, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	47 min
Apr 8, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	47 min
Apr 8, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Neshoba	43 min
Apr 8, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Union	32 min
Apr 8, 6:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Union	34 min
Apr 8, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	48 min
Apr 8, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Carroll, Holmes	50 min
Apr 8, 6:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga	49 min
Apr 8, 6:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	49 min
Apr 8, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Montgomery	31 min
Apr 8, 6:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker, Winston	34 min
Apr 8, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	32 min
Apr 8, 6:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee	32 min
Apr 8, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	47 min
Apr 8, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Attala	51 min
Apr 8, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Itawamba, Prentiss	46 min
Apr 8, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Newton	46 min
Apr 8, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Elmore	50 min
Apr 8, 6:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Hinds, Madison	51 min
Apr 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman	47 min
Apr 8, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Kemper, Neshoba	47 min
Apr 8, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	49 min
Apr 8, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Franklin	51 min
Apr 8, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw	32 min
Apr 8, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Hinds, Rankin	51 min
Apr 8, 7:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar	50 min
Apr 8, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa, Tallapoosa	45 min
Apr 8, 7:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marion	47 min
Apr 8, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Leake	66 min
Apr 8, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cullman	35 min
Apr 8, 7:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marshall	47 min
Apr 8, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	48 min
Apr 8, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Winston	48 min
Apr 8, 7:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	48 min
Apr 8, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Blount	46 min
Apr 8, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	50 min
Apr 8, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Oktibbeha	45 min
Apr 8, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lawrence	49 min
Apr 8, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	63 min
Apr 8, 7:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	JAN	Scott	41 min
Apr 8, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	64 min
Apr 8, 7:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MEG	Clay	32 min
Apr 8, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	66 min
Apr 8, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	50 min
Apr 8, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Rankin	45 min

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 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

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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 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, 1:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, DeKalb, Etowah, St. Clair	6 hr
Apr 8, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Chambers, Lee, Randolph	7 hr
Apr 8, 7:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alcorn, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Coahoma and 23 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.