Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1998, 8:05 PM EDT for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 85 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
- May 7, 1998, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1998, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lexington County, SC
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 909 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
598 WUUS1 KCAE 080007 SVRCAE SCC063-080130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 805 PM EDT THU MAY 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LEXINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 930 PM EDT * WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BATESBURG-LEESVILLE . THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GILBERT AT 815 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, 6:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 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
TTHLocal storm report, May 7, 7:16 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
716 PM EDT THU MAY 07 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
714 PM LINCOLNTON GA .88 INCH HAIL
05/07/98 LINCOLN PUBLIC REPORTS NICKEL
SIZED HAIL
TTHLocal storm report, May 7, 7:24 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
724 PM EDT THU MAY 07 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
724 PM LINCOLNTON GA 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/98 LINCOLN PUBLIC REPORTS GOLF BALL
SIZED HAIL
TTHLocal storm report, May 7, 7:26 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
726 PM EDT THU MAY 07 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
720 PM 25NW EDGEFIELD SC TORNADO
05/07/98 EDGEFIELD SPOTTER AND FIRE DEPT
REPORTS TORNADO ON THE
GROUND NEAR HIGHWAY 283 25
MILES NORTH OF TOWN OF
EDGEFIELD
TTHLocal storm report, May 7, 7:30 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
730 PM EDT THU MAY 07 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
720 PM 25N EDGEFIELD SC TORNADO
05/07/98 EDGEFIELD SPOTTER AND FIRE DEPT
REPORTS TORNADO ON THE
GROUND NEAR HIGHWAY 283 25
MILES NORTH OF TOWN OF
EDGEFIELD
TTHLocal storm report, May 7, 7:55 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
755 PM EDT THU MAY 07 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
745 PM LINCOLNTON GA TORNADO
05/07/98 LINCOLN POLICE REPORTS DAMAGE FROM
TORNADO IN TOWN OF
LINCOLNTON AT 745 PM
TTHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 53 min |
| May 7, 8:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken | 53 min |
| May 7, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell, Orangeburg | 65 min |
| May 7, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 67 min |
| May 7, 11:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | McCormick | 31 min |
| May 8, 12:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 47 min |
| May 8, 2:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 45 min |
| May 8, 2:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 42 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.