Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998

Tornado Warning 16, NWS Columbia, SC

June 2, 1998Saluda County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 11:29 AM EDT for Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 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 2, 1998, 11:29 AM EDT (15:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1998, 12:00 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Saluda County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1998-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 716 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1998-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
716 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

042 
WFUS1 KCAE 021532 RRA
TORCAE
SCC081-021600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1129 AM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SALUDA COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1200 PM EDT

* AT 1130 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST 
  SOUTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF SALUDA MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

HG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 8:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington33 min
Jun 2, 9:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEOrangeburg45 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.