Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1998, 2:26 PM EDT for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 64 min. 2 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
- Jun 4, 1998, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1998, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lexington County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lexington, SC | SKYWARN spotter reported large limbs down on highway 378. |
| Jun 4, 3:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lexington, SC | SKYWARN spotter reported large limbs down on highway 378. |
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.
| 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 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
- 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.
648 WUUS1 KCAE 041827 RRA SVRCAE SCC063-041930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 226 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LEXINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 225 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF GILBERT MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST ALONG US 1 TOWARDS WEST COLUMBIA. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WEST COLUMBIA AT 300 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. 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, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Saluda | 39 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
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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.