Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 10:41 PM EST for Columbia County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 10:41 PM EST (03:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 11:45 PM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbia County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 10:47 PM EST | Hail 1 | Evans, GA | SKYWARN spotter reports 1 inch hail. |
| Apr 3, 11:00 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Martinez, GA | Spotter reports golf ball size 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 10:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 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
- 2522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 151 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 676 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 34.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
315 WUUS1 KCAE 040338 RRA SVRCAE GAC073-040445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1041 PM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COLUMBIA COUNTY IN GEORGIA * UNTIL 1145 PM EST * NATIONAL WEATHER SERVI CE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH FROM MCDUFFIE COUNTY INTO COLUMBIA COUNTY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... APPLING AT 1055 PM MARTINEZ AT 1110 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. MWC/CTC
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, Apr 3, 10:22 PM EST, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1022 PM EST FRI APR 03 1998
TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
945 PM JUST NORTH OF EDGEFIELD SC TORNADO
04/03/98 EDGEFIELD TORNADO ON GROUND..NO
DAMAGE
TTHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 10:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McDuffie | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 11:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richmond | 56 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.