Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 496
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 2, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT for 30 counties in North Carolina; Dillon County, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties
Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pender County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Wake County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Dillon County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Orange | 47 min |
| Jun 2, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 483 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 16.4
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 3, 2:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Madison | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe and 34 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 3, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Chatham, Columbus, Craven and 25 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in North Carolina, 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.