Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 4:42 PM EDT for Lexington County, Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 min. 3 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 10, 1998, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lexington County, SC, Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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 10, 4:56 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Leesville, SC | SKYWARN spotter reported large limbs down on U.S. 1. |
| Jun 10, 5:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Batesburg, SC | SKYWARN spotter reported trees down. |
| Jun 10, 5:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Saluda, SC | SKYWARN spotter reported trees down at highways 378 and 391. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 10, 2:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
248 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
225 PM 10 S EDGEFIELD SC .75 INCH HAIL
06/10/98 EDGEFIELD SKYWARN SPOTTER
MWCLocal storm report, Jun 10, 2:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
250 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
232 PM BATESBURG-LEESVILLE SC .75 INCH HAIL
06/10/98 LEXINGTON SKYWARN SPOTTER
MWCLocal storm report, Jun 10, 3:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
321 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
240 PM LONESTAR SC TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES.
06/10/98 CALHOUN REPORTED BY TRI-COUNTY
ELECTRIC.
DAELocal storm report, Jun 10, 3:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
321 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
240 PM LONESTAR SC TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES.
06/10/98 CALHOUN REPORTED BY TRI-COUNTY
ELECTRIC.
DAELocal storm report, Jun 10, 4:32 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
432 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
425 PM MCCORMICK SC WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 MCCORMICK HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTED
TREES DOWN ON US 221 IN N
PART OF COUNTY.
RJLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Barnwell | 54 min |
| Jun 10, 6:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 9:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Richland, Sumter | 51 min |
| Jun 10, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richmond | 52 min |
Nearby
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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.