Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 1998, 9:36 PM EST for Edgefield County, Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 9:36 PM EST (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 10:15 PM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edgefield County, SC, Saluda County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 9:50 PM EST | Hail 1.75 | Saluda, SC | Sheriff reported golf ball size hail. |
| Apr 3, 9:55 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Saluda, SC | Sheriff reported several trees down off highways south of Saluda. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 040233 RRA TORCAE SCC037-081-040315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 936 PM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA SC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN EDGEFIELD COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA SALUDA COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1015 PM EST * WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SOUTHERN GREENWOOD COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN EDGEFIELD AND SALUDA COUNTIES. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. CTC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 9:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 59 min |
| Apr 3, 9:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | McCormick | 18 min |
| Apr 3, 10:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Newberry | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 10:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 10:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 11:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 11:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 11:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 11:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.