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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Columbia, SC

April 22, 1998Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1998, 6:03 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 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: Apr 22, 1998, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Burke County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1422 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

985 
WUUS1 KCAE 222204 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC033-222300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
603 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BURKE COUNTY IN GEORGIA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT 

* WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES 
  WEST OF VIDETTE AT 600 PM.  MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 
  30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  VIDETTE AT 610 PM
  MAGRUDER  AT 630 PM
  ROSIER AT 620 PM

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 22, 2:59 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
259 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

255 PM     AUGUSTA                   GA   .75 INCH HAIL
04/22/98   RICHMOND                       SEVERAL REPORTS OF DIME TO
                                          PEA SIZED HAIL IN AUGUSTA

TTH

Local storm report, Apr 22, 3:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
306 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

258 PM     NORTH AUGUSTA             SC   .75 INCH HAIL
04/22/98   AIKEN                          PUBLIC REPORT

305 PM     CLEARWATER                SC   .75 INCH HAIL
04/22/98   AIKEN                          PEA TO DIME SIZED HAIL

TTH

Local storm report, Apr 22, 3:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
329 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

325 PM     7 S AIKEN                 SC   .88 INCH HAIL
04/22/98   AIKEN                          HAM SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          NICKEL SIZE HAIL NEAR
                                          INTERSECTION OF ROUTE 302
                                          AND US 278

330 PM     2 E AIKEN                 SC   .88 INCH HAIL
04/22/98   AIKEN                          HAM SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          NICKEL HAIL AT THE
                                          INTERSECTION OF ROUTE
                                          302AND US 78.

AWP

Local storm report, Apr 22, 4:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
401 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

353 PM     BATESBURG                 SC   .75 INCH HAIL
04/22/98   LEXINGTON                      DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN
                                          BATESBURG

BC

Local storm report, Apr 22, 4:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
405 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

345 PM     5 SW SALUDA               SC   .88 INCH HAIL
04/22/98   SALUDA                         NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 178

BC

Local storm report, Apr 22, 5:19 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
519 PM EDT WED APR 22 1998

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

500 PM     WEST COLUMBIA             SC   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/22/98   LEXINGTON                      PUBLIC REPORT GOLF BALL
                                          SIZED HAIL AT LEXINGTON
                                          COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER NEAR
                                          INTERSECTION OF US1-I26

TTH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia, Richmond	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1998 Every 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.