Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 1998, 2:50 PM EDT for Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 25 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
- Sep 8, 1998, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1998, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 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 18:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 3:07 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Heath Spgs, SC | Sheriff reported golf ball size hail and a funnel cloud. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 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
- 484 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
742 WFUS1 KCAE 081851 RRA TORCAE SCC057-081915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 250 PM EDT TUE SEP 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 237 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN SOUTHEAST CHESTER COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN GREAT FALLS AND HEATH SPRINGS AT AROUND 315 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH. SJN/MWC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 42 min |
| Sep 8, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 53 min |
| Sep 8, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 41 min |
| Sep 8, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 38 min |
| Sep 8, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 48 min |
| Sep 8, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 50 min |
| Sep 8, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 31 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.