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Tornado Watch 325

May 9, 19986 counties in Alabama; 71 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 9, 1998, 11:30 PM CDT for 6 counties in Alabama; 71 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 9, 1998, 11:30 PM CDT (04:30 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1998, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 77 counties

Chambers County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Hart County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRandolph50 min
May 9, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCherokee, Fulton33 min
May 9, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCarroll35 min
May 9, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb, Gwinnett34 min
May 9, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCForsyth34 min
May 10, 12:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDouglas, Fulton52 min
May 10, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCBarrow, Hall, Jackson33 min
May 10, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCleburne45 min
May 10, 1:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Fulton32 min
May 10, 2:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCPaulding35 min
May 10, 2:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCHaralson, Polk36 min
May 10, 2:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCCobb, Fulton35 min
May 10, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDeKalb34 min
May 10, 3:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGwinnett32 min
May 10, 4:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCOconee, Walton49 min
May 10, 4:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCGreene, Morgan49 min

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 34 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1998-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 37 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1998-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
37 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-470 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 35 more6 hr
May 10, 1:00 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 28 more4 hr
May 10, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien and 45 more7 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.