Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT for McCormick County, South Carolina; Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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 9, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, GA, McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 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 9, 6:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 | Lincolnton, GA | EPD reported many trees down in Pleasantville subdivision. |
| Jun 9, 6:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Mc Cormick, SC | TV 10 reported golf ball size hail. |
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
317 WUUS1 KCAE 092211 RRA SVRCAE SCC065-GAC181-092300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 610 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCCORMICK COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA LINCOLN COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 610 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CALHOUN FALLS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MT. CARMEL AT 625 PM WILLINGTON AT 630PM BORDEAUX AT 640 PM THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH. INTENSE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE AS SOME TORNADOES. RCC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 6:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | McCormick | 68 min |
| Jun 9, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 7:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 24 min |
| Jun 9, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.