Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1998, 8:11 PM EDT for Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report 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, 8:11 PM EDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1998, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Aiken County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Windsor, SC | Sheriff reported trees down. |
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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 1145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1340 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
744 WFUS1 KCAE 050013 RRA TORCAE SCC003-050045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 811 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... AIKEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 806 PM..,WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO IN NORTHWEST AIKEN COUNTY NEAR BELEVEDERE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GRANITEVILLE AT 820 PM AIKEN AT 825 PM WARRENVILLE AT 820 PM IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. AMATEUR RADIO AND OTHER SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO MONITOR THIS STORM AND RELAY REPORTS PROMPTLY TO THE NEAREST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. TTH/RJL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 26 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.