Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998

Tornado Warning 21, NWS Columbia, SC

June 9, 1998Edgefield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1998, 7:21 PM EDT for Edgefield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 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 9, 1998, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1998, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Edgefield County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 207 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 1998-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1998-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

740 
WFUS1 KCAE 092322 RRA
TORCAE
SCC037-092345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
721 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN EDGEFIELD COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT 

* AT 720 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A TORNADO 10 MILES NORTH OF NORTH AUGUSTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST 
  AT 35 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN 
ITS PATH. 

RCC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEMcCormick50 min
Jun 9, 6:52 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEMcCormick68 min
Jun 9, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEEdgefield33 min
Jun 9, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.