Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1998, 3:03 PM EDT for Newberry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 42 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
- Sep 8, 1998, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1998, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Newberry County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 3:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Newberry, SC | Sheriff reported trees and powerlines down. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 1524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 918 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
825 WUUS1 KCAE 081905 RRA SVRCAE SCC071-081945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 303 PM EDT TUE SEP 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NEWBERRY COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 252 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CLINTON IN LAURENS COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NEWBERRY AT 320 PROSPERITY AT 330 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. SJN/MWC
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, Sep 8, 2:54 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
254 PM EDT TUE SEP 08 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
307 PM 4 W HEATH SPRINGS SC 1.75 INCH HAIL
09/08/98 LANCASTER LANCASTER COUNTY SHERIFF
TAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 25 min |
| Sep 8, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 53 min |
| Sep 8, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 41 min |
| Sep 8, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 38 min |
| Sep 8, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 48 min |
| Sep 8, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 50 min |
| Sep 8, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 31 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.