Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Columbia, SC

June 14, 1998Lexington County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 6:36 PM EDT for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1998, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Lexington County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1998-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1998-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
273 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

169 
WUUS1 KCAE 142239 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC063-142300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
636 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEXINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT 

* WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
  7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PELION...JUST SOUTH OF I-20. THIS STORM 
  WAS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RED BANK AT 650 PM
  SPRINGDALE AT 700 PM

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. 

LCV/HG

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

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
SCZ015-016-018-020-021-022-025-026-027-028-029-030-031-035-
036-037-038-041-GAZ040-063-064-065-077-151000-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
300 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

THE OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA:

AIKEN        BAMBERG      BARNWELL     CALHOUN      CHESTERFIELD
CLARENDON    EDGEFIELD    FAIRFIELD    KERSHAW      LANCASTER
LEE          LEXINGTON    MCCORMICK    NEWBERRY     ORANGEBURG
RICHLAND     SALUDA       SUMTER

THE OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN GEORGIA:

BURKE        COLUMBIA     LINCOLN      MCDUFFIE     RICHMOND

...SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...

A WARM FRONT EXTENDING THROUGH CENTRAL GEORGIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON WILL
MOVE NORTHEASTWARD AND INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT. AN UPPER-LEVEL
DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EAST AND INTERACT WITH THE FRONT AND HELP CAUSE
A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. CURRENT DATA SHOWS THIS UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE
WILL BE VERY WEAK OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA...AND THE CHANCE OF DAMAGING
WINDS AND TORNADOES IS MUCH LESS THAN EXPECTED EARLIER.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED.

RJL
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
SCZ015-016-018-020-021-022-025-026-027-028-029-030-031-035-
036-037-038-041-GAZ040-063-064-065-077-151000-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
300 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

THE OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA:

AIKEN        BAMBERG      BARNWELL     CALHOUN      CHESTERFIELD
CLARENDON    EDGEFIELD    FAIRFIELD    KERSHAW      LANCASTER
LEE          LEXINGTON    MCCORMICK    NEWBERRY     ORANGEBURG
RICHLAND     SALUDA       SUMTER

THE OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN GEORGIA:

BURKE        COLUMBIA     LINCOLN      MCDUFFIE     RICHMOND

...SEVERE WEATHER THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...

A WARM FRONT EXTENDING THROUGH CENTRAL GEORGIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON WILL
MOVE NORTHEASTWARD AND INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA TONIGHT. AN UPPER-LEVEL
DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EAST AND INTERACT WITH THE FRONT AND HELP CAUSE
A FEW THUNDERSTORMS. CURRENT DATA SHOWS THIS UPPER-LEVEL DISTURBANCE
WILL BE VERY WEAK OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA...AND THE CHANCE OF DAMAGING
WINDS AND TORNADOES IS MUCH LESS THAN EXPECTED EARLIER.

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED.

RJL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken42 min
Jun 14, 6:28 PM EDTTornado WarningCAENewberry, Saluda32 min
Jun 14, 6:48 PM EDTTornado WarningCAELexington42 min
Jun 14, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun, Richland44 min
Jun 14, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.