Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1998, 3:07 PM EDT for Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 53 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
- Sep 8, 1998, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1998, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kershaw County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.
836 WUUS1 KCAE 081909 RRA SVRCAE SCC055-082000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 307 PM EDT TUE SEP 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KERSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 304 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO KERSHAW COUNTY FROM LANCASTER COUNTY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LIBERTY HILL AT 315 PM BETHUME AT 340 PM DELKALB AT 330 PM THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH. INTENSE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE AS SOME TORNADOES. 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, 13 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, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 42 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
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.