Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 1998, 1:06 PM EST for Bamberg County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 69 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
- Mar 8, 1998, 1:06 PM EST (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 2:15 PM EST
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bamberg County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 1:20 PM EST | Tornado F2 | Neeses, SC | An F2 tornado tracked along highway 4 near Pine Hill. It picked up 2 mobile homes, took them 35 ft into the air, and brought them down on top of a 35 ft by 75 ft cinder block building 30 yards away completely destroying the mobile homes and the building. Oth |
| Mar 8, 1:50 PM EST | Tornado F2 | Vance, SC | An F2 tornado did major damage to a horse farm and race track. Several of the horses were injured. Debris from the horse farm was found as far as 3 miles away. Major damage was also done to a home and a couple of mobile homes. Minor damage was also done to a c |
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 nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 081806 RRA TORCAE SCC009-075-081915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 106 PM EST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...BAMBERG COUNTY...ORANGEBURG COUNTY AT 1255 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY BAMBERG COUNTY SHERIFF NEAR OLAR. IT IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF NORWAY IN ORANGEBURG COUNTY AT 100 PM. DO NOT STAY IN A CAR OR MOBILE HOME DURING A TORNADO. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CvAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR OR MOBILE HOME AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. BE ALERT FOR FLOODING OF LOW AREAS. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 1:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 37 min |
| Mar 8, 2:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 41 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.