Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1998, 5:36 PM EDT for Clarendon 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
- May 10, 1998, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1998, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clarendon County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
708 WFUS1 KCAE 102137 RRA TORCAE SCC027-102215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 536 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLARENDON COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 535PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO IN SOUTHERN SUMTER COUNTY NEAR PINEWOOD. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO CLARENDON COUNTY WITHIN 10 MINUTES. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. SEEK SHELTER NOW * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PAXVILLE AT 550 PM MANNING AT 605 PM AWP
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 10, 3:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
356 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
355 PM NEESES SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/10/98 ORANGEBURG ORANGEBURG COUNTY EOC
REPORTS 1 INCH HAIL NEAR
NEESES.
MOORELocal storm report, May 10, 4:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
424 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
405 PM 5 W ORANGEBURG SC WIND DAMAGE
05/10/98 ORANGEBURG COUNTY SHERIFF...POWER
LINES DOWN IN BOLENTOWN
AREA
410 PM 2 SW ORANGEBURG SC WIND DAMAGE
05/10/98 ORANGEBURG COUNTY SHERIFF...TREES
DOWN ON CANNONBRIDGE ROAD
410 PM 15 E ORANGEBURG SC 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/10/98 ORANGEBURG COUNTY SHERIFF...GOLFBALL
SIZE HAIL NEAR SANTEE
420 PM 5 E ORANGEBURG SC 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/10/98 ORANGEBURG COUNTY SHERIFF...GOLFBALL
SIZE HAIL AT JUNCTION OF
HWY 301 AND I-26
MOOREThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 48 min |
| May 10, 4:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 26 min |
| May 10, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 32 min |
| May 10, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Sumter | 37 min |
| May 10, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 43 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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.