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Tornado Watch 303

May 7, 199843 counties in Georgia; Union County, North Carolina; 29 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 7, 1998, 5:00 PM EDT for 43 counties in Georgia; Union County, North Carolina; 29 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 7, 1998, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: May 7, 1998, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 73 counties

Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 5:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Oconee	34 min
May 7, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin	49 min
May 7, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	63 min
May 7, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Elbert, Hart	45 min
May 7, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rabun	66 min
May 7, 6:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Elbert	46 min
May 7, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe	47 min
May 7, 6:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson	46 min
May 7, 6:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenwood	47 min
May 7, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkes	49 min
May 7, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McCormick	61 min
May 7, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	50 min
May 7, 6:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Banks, Jackson	34 min
May 7, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield	61 min
May 7, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lincoln	57 min
May 7, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Saluda	62 min
May 7, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rabun	48 min
May 7, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Madison, Oconee	51 min
May 7, 7:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Edgefield	35 min
May 7, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Clarke, Oconee	35 min
May 7, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McCormick	61 min
May 7, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	49 min
May 7, 7:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Lincoln	38 min
May 7, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe	51 min
May 7, 7:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Anderson	50 min
May 7, 7:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Edgefield, Saluda	29 min
May 7, 7:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	McCormick	33 min
May 7, 7:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe	36 min
May 7, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington	85 min
May 7, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	64 min
May 7, 8:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Edgefield	53 min
May 7, 8:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Wilkes	48 min
May 7, 8:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Aiken	53 min
May 7, 8:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Wilkes	34 min
May 7, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Barrow, Jackson	36 min
May 7, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia, Lincoln	61 min
May 7, 9:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg	65 min
May 7, 9:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Clarke, Oconee	51 min
May 7, 9:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Madison	49 min
May 7, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield	67 min
May 7, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Oglethorpe	47 min
May 7, 10:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lincoln	55 min

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 650 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -3.5

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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
May 7, 11:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Clarke, Columbia and 36 more	5 hr
May 7, 2:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll and 48 more	7 hr
May 7, 5:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 28 more	6 hr
May 7, 7:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alamance, Anson, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland, Duplin and 24 more	5 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.