Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1998, 6:49 PM EDT for Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1998, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1998, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kershaw County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Elgin, SC | EPD reported trees down. |
| Jun 6, 7:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lugoff, SC | Sheriff reported trees down. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
859 WUUS1 KCAE 062250 RRA SVRCAE SCC055-062315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 649 PM EDT SAT JUN 6 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KERSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 650 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CAMDEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. RCC
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 6, 6:04 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
604 PM EDT SAT JUN 06 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
557 PM 5 NW WINNSBORO SC WIND DAMAGE
06/06/98 FAIRFIELD FAIRFIELD COUNTY SHERIFF
REPORTED TREES DOWN ON
PEARSON ROAD BETWEEN
HIGHWAY 215 AND 34.
RCCLocal storm report, Jun 6, 6:26 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
626 PM EDT SAT JUN 06 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
542 PM 12 NW WINNSBORO SC WIND DAMAGE
06/06/98 FAIRFIELD SOUTH CAROLINA HIGHWAY
PATROL REPORTED TREES DOWN
ON ASHFORD ROAD.
RCCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.