Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1998, 2:21 PM EDT for Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 4, 1998, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Saluda County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 1:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1198 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
628 WUUS1 KCAE 041822 RRA SVRCAE SCC081-041900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 221 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN SALUDA COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 220 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF SALUDA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ALONG RT 378 TOWARDS THE SALUDA AND LEXINGTON COUNTY LINE. 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/RJL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 53 min |
| Jun 4, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 43 min |
| Jun 4, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 3:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 56 min |
| Jun 4, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 49 min |
| Jun 4, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 66 min |
| Jun 4, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Saluda | 26 min |
| Jun 4, 7:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 28 min |
| Jun 4, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 51 min |
| Jun 4, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.