Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 327
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 10, 1998, 2:00 PM EDT for 51 counties in Georgia; 13 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1998, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1998, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 10, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 59 min |
| May 10, 2:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Screven | 51 min |
| May 10, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Effingham | 45 min |
| May 10, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 62 min |
| May 10, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 48 min |
| May 10, 4:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 26 min |
| May 10, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 63 min |
| May 10, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 34 min |
| May 10, 4:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 46 min |
| May 10, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 60 min |
| May 10, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston | 61 min |
| May 10, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 43 min |
| May 10, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 20 min |
| May 10, 6:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston | 40 min |
| May 10, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 61 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 9, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dade | 6 hr |
| May 10, 12:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 65 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 2:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dade | 4 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Georgia, 1998Tornado Watches in South Carolina, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.