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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Columbia, SC

May 7, 1998Lincoln County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1998, 6:48 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 min. 6 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
May 7, 1998, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1998, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 7, 7:14 PM EDTHail 0.88Lincolnton, GASheriff reported nickel size hail.
May 7, 7:24 PM EDTHail 1.75Lincolnton, GASheriff reported golf ball size hail.
May 7, 7:33 PM EDTTornado F1Lincolnton, GAAn F1 tornado destroyed two chicken sheds, tore a roof off a home, and turned a home 90 degrees and moved it off its foundation.
May 7, 7:41 PM EDTTornado F2Lincolnton, GAAn F2 tornado hit the Pine Woods subdivision destryoing 12 homes and causing major damage to 15 homes and minor damage to 8 homes.
May 7, 7:47 PM EDTTornado F1New Hope, GAAn F1 tornado did major damage and minor damage to several homes and mobile homes.
May 7, 7:53 PM EDTTornado F2New Hope, GAAn F2 tornado destroyed 7 homes and did major and minor damage to about a dozen others at Indian Cove.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 7, 5:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1998-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 650 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1998-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 193 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
650 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-3.5

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The text

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

143 
WUUS1 KCAE 072249 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC181-072345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
648 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT 

* WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
  OVER WILKES COUNTY GEORGIA. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO LINCOLN 
  COUNTY  AROUND 715 PM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 30 
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CHENNAULT AT 715 PM
  LINCOLNTON AT 715 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.

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, May 7, 1:44 PM EDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
144 PM EDT THU MAY 07 1998

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

120 PM     5 S WAYNESBORO            GA   .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/98   BURKE                          COUNTY DIRECTOR REPORTS
                                          HAIL HIGHWAY 56

TA
Special weather statement, May 7, 3:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
SCZ015-016-018-020-021-022-025-026-027-028-029-030-031-
035-036-037-038-041-GAZ040-063-064-065-077-072011-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
315 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED IN PART OF THE WATCH
AREA. THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE COLUMBIA COUNTY WARNING AREA:

AIKEN        BAMBERG      BARNWELL     BURKE        CALHOUN
CHESTERFIELD CLARENDON    COLUMBIA     EDGEFIELD    FAIRFIELD
KERSHAW      LANCASTER    LEE          LEXINGTON    LINCOLN
MCCORMICK    MCDUFFIE     NEWBERRY     ORANGEBURG   RICHLAND
RICHMOND     SALUDA       SUMTER

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO CROSS THE EASTERN MIDLANDS
THROUGH 5 PM...BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

LM
Special weather statement, May 7, 3:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
SCZ015-016-018-020-021-022-025-026-027-028-029-030-031-
035-036-037-038-041-GAZ040-063-064-065-077-072011-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
315 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED IN PART OF THE WATCH
AREA. THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE COLUMBIA COUNTY WARNING AREA:

AIKEN        BAMBERG      BARNWELL     BURKE        CALHOUN
CHESTERFIELD CLARENDON    COLUMBIA     EDGEFIELD    FAIRFIELD
KERSHAW      LANCASTER    LEE          LEXINGTON    LINCOLN
MCCORMICK    MCDUFFIE     NEWBERRY     ORANGEBURG   RICHLAND
RICHMOND     SALUDA       SUMTER

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO CROSS THE EASTERN MIDLANDS
THROUGH 5 PM...BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

LM
Special weather statement, May 7, 3:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
SCZ015-016-018-020-021-022-025-026-027-028-029-030-031-035-
036-037-038-041-GAZ040-063-064-065-077-080000-

THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
342 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998

THE OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA:
AIKEN        BAMBERG      BARNWELL     CALHOUN      CHESTERFIELD
CLARENDON    EDGEFIELD    FAIRFIELD    KERSHAW      LANCASTER
LEE          LEXINGTON    MCCORMICK    NEWBERRY     ORANGEBURG
RICHLAND     SALUDA       SUMTER

THE OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN GEORGIA:
BURKE        COLUMBIA     LINCOLN      MCDUFFIE     RICHMOND

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHING THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND
NORTHERN GEORGIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A STRONG UPPER
LEVEL FLOW. IN THE LOWER LEVELS, THE AIRMASS IS ALREADY UNSTABLE AHEAD
OF AN APPROACHING FRONT.

THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING WEST OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED
TO MOVE INTO CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA
OF GEORGIA THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

THE SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...DAMAGING
HAIL TO 2 INCHES AND WIND GUST TO 60 MPH. A FEW TORNADOES ARE ALSO
POSSIBLE WITH THE MOST INTENSE STORMS.

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS ARE REQUESTED TO REMAIN ALERT AND
MAKE PRELIMINARY PLANS TO DEAL WITH SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD IT OCCUR.
SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS...INCLUDING AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS...
SHOULD MONITOR THIS WEATHER SITUATION AND RELAY REPORTS PROMPTLY
TO THE NEAREST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

LM
Local storm report, May 7, 6:35 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
635 PM EDT THU MAY 07 1998

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

634 PM     MCCORMICK                 SC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/98   MCCORMICK                      PUBLIC REPORTS QUARTER TO
                                          GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL

TTH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 1:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBurke29 min
May 7, 7:37 PM EDTTornado WarningCAELincoln38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.