Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 5:53 PM EDT for Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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 10, 1998, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richmond County, GA
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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, 5:56 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Hephzibah, GA | Public reported dime size hail. |
| Jun 10, 6:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Augusta, GA | SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch hail south of Hepzibah near the Burke county line. |
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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
959 WUUS1 KCAE 102155 RRA SVRCAE GAC245-102245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 553 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RICHMOND COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 550 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FORT GORDON IN WESTERN RICHMOND COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HEPHZIBAH AT 605 PM MCBEAN AT 620 PM TA/JL
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, 3:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 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, 2 hours 32 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, 1 hour 21 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.
RJLLocal storm report, Jun 10, 4:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
444 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
430 PM EDGEFIELD SC WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 EDGEFIELD HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTED
TREES DOWN ON US 25 IN N
PART OF CTY.
RJLLocal storm report, Jun 10, 4:58 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
458 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
456 PM LEESVILLE SC WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 LEXINGTON LARGE LIMBS DOWN ON
HIGHWAY 1 JUST E OF
LEESVILLE FROM AMATEUR
RADIO SPOTTER.
RJLLocal storm report, Jun 10, 5:11 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
511 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
505 PM 13 E SALUDA SC WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 SALUDA AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER
REPORTED SEVERAL TREES
DOWN AT INTERSECTIONOF
HIGHWAY 378 AND ROUTE 391
RJLNearby
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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.