Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1998, 6:32 PM EDT for Columbia County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 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, 6:32 PM EDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1998, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 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 22:31 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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
- 353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 3:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
331 PM EDT TUE SEP 08 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
330 PM CITY OF NEWBERRY SC WIND DAMAGE
09/08/98 NEWBERRY TREE DOWN AND NUMEROUS
POWER OUTAGES
TALocal storm report, Sep 8, 4:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
425 PM EDT TUE SEP 08 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
415 PM NE COLUMBIA SC WIND DAMAGE
09/08/98 RICHLAND RICHLAND CO SHERIFF RPTS
NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN/STRUCTUAL DAMAGE
TALocal storm report, Sep 8, 4:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
446 PM EDT TUE SEP 08 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
440 PM 15 W SUMTER SC .75 INCH HAIL
09/08/98 SUMTER WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED
PENNY SIZE HAIL ON HWY 378
JUST EAST OF THE WATEREE
RIVER.
LCVLocal storm report, Sep 8, 5:36 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
536 PM EDT TUE SEP 08 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
530 PM 4 MILES NW MANNING SC WIND DAMAGE
09/08/98 CLARENDON CLARENDON EPD REPORTS
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
BETWEEN MANNING AND
PAXVILLE
DAESpecial weather statement, Sep 8, 6:13 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
SCZ015-016-022-029-031-082313- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 613 PM EDT TUE SEP 8 1998 THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED IN THE WATCH AREA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE COLUMBIA COUNTY WARNING AREA: CHESTERFIELD KERSHAW LANCASTER LEE SUMTER LM
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 6:13 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
SCZ015-016-022-029-031-082313- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 613 PM EDT TUE SEP 8 1998 THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED IN THE WATCH AREA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE COLUMBIA COUNTY WARNING AREA: CHESTERFIELD KERSHAW LANCASTER LEE SUMTER LM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McDuffie, Richmond | 33 min |
| Sep 8, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.