Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1998, 7:26 PM EDT for Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 49 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, 7:26 PM EDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1998, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Aiken County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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, 7:53 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Aiken, SC | SKYWARN spotter reported trees down on U.S. 1. |
| Jun 9, 8:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Graniteville, SC | SKYWARN spotter reported measured wind gust of 60 mph. |
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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1439 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
757 WUUS1 KCAE 092327 RRA SVRCAE SCC003-100015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 726 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... AIKEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 725 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF NORTH AUGUSTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BELVEDERE AT 735 PM GRANITEVILLE AT 740 PM GLOVERVILLE AT 745 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, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 50 min |
| 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 |
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.