Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 309
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 8, 1998, 1:15 PM EDT for 15 counties in Florida; 47 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 1998, 1:15 PM EDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 62 counties
Baker County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Duval County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Telfair | 18 min |
| May 8, 1:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Coffee | 61 min |
| May 8, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Jeff Davis | 63 min |
| May 8, 1:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 64 min |
| May 8, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 60 min |
| May 8, 2:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham | 17 min |
| May 8, 2:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Bacon | 66 min |
| May 8, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Appling, Wayne | 65 min |
| May 8, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Ware | 65 min |
| May 8, 2:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Pierce | 62 min |
| May 8, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 64 min |
| May 8, 3:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Coffee | 63 min |
| May 8, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Brantley | 64 min |
| May 8, 4:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Camden | 66 min |
| May 8, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JAX | Duval, Nassau | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1025 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
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, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga and 33 more | 5 hr |
| May 7, 9:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Bleckley, Burke, Candler, Clarke and 30 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 2:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Butts and 58 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 1998Tornado Watches in Florida, 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.