Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 4:39 PM EDT for Columbia County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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 16, 1998, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbia County, GA
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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 16, 4:52 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Evans, GA | SKYWARN spotter reported 3/4 inch 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -295 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
753 WUUS1 KCAE 162042 RRA SVRCAE GAC073-162115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 439 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COLUMBIA COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 435 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE COLUMBIA AND MCDUFFIE COUNTY BORDERS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... APPLING AT 450 PM EVANS AT 500 PM IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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
Local storm report, Jun 16, 4:33 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
433 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
430 PM SUMMERTON SC .75 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 CLARENDON CLARENDON COUNTY SHERIFF
REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL IN
TOWN OF SUMMERTO.
HGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McDuffie | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richmond | 35 min |
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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.