Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1998, 12:28 AM EDT for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 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 8, 1998, 12:28 AM EDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1998, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orangeburg 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, 9:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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.
087 WUUS1 KCAE 080429 RRA SVRCAE SCC075-080515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1228 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ORANGEBURG COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 115 AM EDT * WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN NEESES AND ORANGEBURG IN ORANGEBURG COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ORANGEBURG AT 1240 AM ROWESVILLE AT 1245 AM CORDOVA AT 1240 AM TTH
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, 10:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1036 PM EDT THU MAY 07 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1005 PM SOUTH EDGEFIELD COUNTY SC .88 INCH HAIL
05/07/98 EDGEFIELD SHERIFF
BLPLocal storm report, May 7, 10:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1039 PM EDT THU MAY 07 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
852 PM 4 SW EDGEFIELD SC WIND DAMAGE
05/07/98 EDGEFIELD AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER BARN
DESTROYED/TREES UPROOTED
BLPLocal storm report, May 7, 11:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1112 PM EDT THU MAY 07 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1110 PM LINCOLNTON GA .75 INCH HAIL
05/07/98 LINCOLN LINCOLN CO SHERRIF DEPT
REPORTS DIME SIZED HAIL
TTHLocal storm report, May 7, 11:53 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1153 PM EDT THU MAY 07 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1150 PM POLLARDS CORNER GA .88 INCH HAIL
05/07/98 COLUMBIA COLUMBIA COUNTY EPD
REPORTS NICKEL SIZE HAIL
HGSpecial weather statement, May 8, 12:14 AM EDT, 14 minutes before
GAZ064-081214- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1214 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR THE STATEMENT PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN GEORGIA: COLUMBIA THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY GA HAS BEEN CANCELED. THE THE STORM HAS MOVED EAST. RCC
Special weather statement, May 8, 12:14 AM EDT, 14 minutes before
GAZ064-081214- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 1214 AM EDT FRI MAY 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR THE STATEMENT PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTY IN GEORGIA: COLUMBIA THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY GA HAS BEEN CANCELED. THE THE STORM HAS MOVED EAST. RCC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 85 min |
| 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, 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.