Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1998, 7:02 PM EDT for Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 28 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, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1998, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lancaster County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1332 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
386 WFUS1 KCAE 042303 RRA TORCAE SCC057-042330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 702 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 700 PM...WEATHER SERVICD DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO IN NORTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... TRADESVILLE AT 715 PM IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE COVER GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES. DO NOT STAY IN A CAR OR MOBILE HOME DURING A TORNADO. GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. TTH/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, 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, 7:09 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.