Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Charleston, SC

April 18, 1998Hampton County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1998, 12:32 AM EDT for Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 63 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: Apr 18, 1998, 12:32 AM EDT (04:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 1998, 1:35 AM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:35 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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 660 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

233 
WUUS1 KCHS 180433 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC049-180535-

BULLETIN...IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1232 AM EDT SAT APR 18 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HAMPTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 135 AM EDT

* AT 1225 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF NEWINGTON GEORGIA... MOVING
  NORTHEAST 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  JUST EAST OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER AT 1240
  NEAR ESTILL BY 1245
  NEAR ALMEDA AND ROUTE 278 AT 120 AM

DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

MJR/MJL

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 17, 8:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 8:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
835 PM EDT FRI APR 17 1998

SFC ANLY SHOWS FRONT DISSECTING GA FROM NE TO SW AND CLIPPING UPR SC.
CURR RADAR LOOP SHOWING ISOLD LGT SHOWRS ON THE ERN EDGE OF LARGER AREA
IN SERN GA. LIKE TO KEEP THE POPS IN SERN GA THRU THE RMNDR OF FIRST PD
AND WORDED FOR POSS SVR IN EXTREME NWRN PART OF CWA WHERE BOX CURR IN
EFFECT. BLV THERE IS THE POSS FOR SOME SHOWERS/TSTMS TO HOLD TOGETHER
TO WARRANT SLIPPING IN A 20 POP FOR SC PORTION OF CHS CWA FOR THE
OVERNITE PD AS WELL. EXTREME CSTL COUNTIES ADMITTEDLY MARGINAL...BUT A
20 POP WOULDNT HURT. DWPTS RUNNING UPR 60S/NR 70 FOR ENTIRE CWA AND
RECMND UPPING OVRNITE LOWS TO UPR 60S ACRS THE BOARD ESP WITH INCRSD
CLD COVER FROM BLOWOFF OF STORMS TO THE W. OTHER THAN THAT...NO RECMNDD
CHGS FOR ZONES.
ON CWF...ARE BORDERLINE SCA ESP S HALF OF CSTL AREA. HOWEVER...HAVE
BEEN ADVERTISING SCA ON MANY TELCO FISHING TOURNAMENT QUESTIONS
THROUGHOUT TODAY. AS FRONT REMAINS CLOSE TO THIS AREA AND A FOCUS FOR
ACTIVITY THRU WKEND AND ENUF OF A PRES GRAD TO KEEP WINDS UP...FEEL IT
BEST TO CONT SCA CONDS ESP WITH OUTLOOK FOR ACTIVITY THRU SAT...THRU
SUN FOR THAT MATTER. WILL WORD FIRST AND SECOND PD TO REFLECT EXPCTD SCA
CONDS.

MJR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 18, 1:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale	57 min
Apr 18, 2:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Hampton	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.