Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1998, 5:57 PM EDT for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 63 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 16, 1998, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orangeburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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 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, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
402 WUUS1 KCAE 162200 RRA SVRCAE SCC075-162300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 557 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 557 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL...OVER WINDSOR IN EASTERN AIKEN COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SPRINGFIELD AT 625 PM NORWAY AT 640 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. 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, 4:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
444 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
445 PM ALCOLU SC .75 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 CLARENDON CLARENDON COUNTY SHERIFF
REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL IN
TOWN OF ALCOLU.
HGLocal storm report, Jun 16, 5:09 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
509 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
452 PM EVANS GA .75 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 COLUMBIA SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTS
DIME SIZE HAIL IN TOWN OF
EVANS.
HGLocal storm report, Jun 16, 5:11 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
511 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
458 PM AUGUSTA GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 RICHMOND SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTS
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT THE
AUGUSTA MALL.
512 PM 1 NE NORTH AUGUSTA SC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 AIKEN SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTS
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL JUST
NORTHEAST OF NORTH
AUGUSTA.
HGLocal storm report, Jun 16, 5:20 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
520 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
510 PM 10 SW EDGEFIELD SC .75 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 EDGEFIELD EDGEFIELD COUNTY SHERIFF
REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL AT
INTERSECTION OF ROUTES 230
AND 143.
HGLocal storm report, Jun 16, 5:23 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
523 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
520 PM NORTH AUGUSTA SC .75 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 AIKEN SPOTTER REPORTS DIME SIZE
HAIL IN NORTH AUGUSTA.
500 PM AUGUSTA GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 RICHMOND SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTS
GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL ON
CRAWFORD AVENUE IN
AUGUSTA.
HGLocal storm report, Jun 16, 5:47 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
547 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
545 PM AIKEN SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/16/98 AIKEN IN DOWNTOWN AIKEN. FROM
COUNTY SHERIFF
BLPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry, Saluda | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 3:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry, Saluda | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 4:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 44 min |
| Jun 16, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 35 min |
| Jun 16, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 36 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.