Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 64
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 21, 1997, 5:00 PM EST for Richmond County, Georgia; Union County, North Carolina; 28 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 1997, 5:00 PM EST (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1997, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Richmond County, GA, Union County, NC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 66 min |
| Feb 21, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Union | 37 min |
| Feb 21, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 67 min |
| Feb 21, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 12 min |
| Feb 21, 6:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 66 min |
| Feb 21, 6:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 6:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 6:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Marlboro | 73 min |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 8:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Coweta, Dade and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 10:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harris, Muscogee, Troup | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 41 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 3:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 56 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 21, 5:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Catawba, Chatham, Davidson and 18 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch in 1997
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.