Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 494
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 2, 1998, 5:45 PM EDT for 29 counties in North Carolina; 59 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1998, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 88 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Iredell County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Vance County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Albemarle County, VA, Alleghany County, VA, Amelia County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Essex County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Henry County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King William County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Nelson County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Grayson | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Floyd | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 36 min |
| Jun 2, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 6:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Montgomery | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 35 min |
| Jun 2, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Floyd | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 7:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 112 min |
| Jun 2, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance | 46 min |
| Jun 2, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Watauga | 49 min |
| Jun 2, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pulaski, City of Radford | 31 min |
| Jun 2, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Orange | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alleghany, Bath, Bland, Buchanan, Craig, Dickenson and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier and 23 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Virginia, 1998Tornado Watches in North 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.