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Tornado Watch 238

April 16, 199822 counties in Alabama; 36 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 16, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT for 22 counties in Alabama; 36 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 1998, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 58 counties

Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Fayette 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, Heard County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Towns County, GA, Troup County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 16, 9:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Etowah	63 min
Apr 16, 9:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jackson	36 min
Apr 16, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	50 min
Apr 16, 9:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	St. Clair	32 min
Apr 16, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dade	33 min
Apr 16, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Walker	32 min
Apr 16, 10:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marshall	35 min
Apr 16, 10:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	DeKalb	64 min
Apr 16, 10:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cherokee	47 min
Apr 16, 10:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Catoosa, Walker	35 min
Apr 16, 10:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Chattooga, Floyd	32 min
Apr 16, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	32 min
Apr 16, 10:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Floyd	18 min
Apr 16, 11:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	DeKalb	48 min
Apr 16, 11:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Bartow	47 min
Apr 16, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	50 min
Apr 16, 11:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	49 min
Apr 16, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Fannin, Union	32 min
Apr 17, 12:04 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin	51 min
Apr 17, 12:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	48 min
Apr 17, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gordon, Pickens	46 min
Apr 17, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	44 min
Apr 17, 12:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall	33 min
Apr 17, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Dawson, Lumpkin	31 min
Apr 17, 1:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Hall, White	48 min
Apr 17, 1:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham	31 min
Apr 17, 2:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	33 min
Apr 17, 2:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Lumpkin, White	4 hr
Apr 17, 2:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FFC	Dawson	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 1586 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.6
Supercell composite: 16.9

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Clarke, Coffee and 13 more	6 hr
Apr 17, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Barbour, Bullock, Henry, Russell	5 hr
Apr 17, 12:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Banks, Barrow, Butts, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert and 24 more	6 hr
Apr 17, 7:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Butts and 64 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.