Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1998, 11:21 PM EDT for Chatham County, Effingham County, Georgia. 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
- May 3, 1998, 11:21 PM EDT (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1998, 11:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chatham County, GA, Effingham County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 11:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Meldrim, GA |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 11:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 May 3, 8:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 8:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 842 PM EDT SUN MAY 3 1998 SATIMG/WSR-88D INDICATE AN AREA OF TSTMS OVR MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF GA ATTM. THE AREA CONTINUES TO MOVE EASTWARD. ATL...WITH THE AREA OF PRECIP AS LARGE AS IT IS...HOW ABOUT A 50% POP FOR SE GA? CAE...TEMPS ALREADY IN THW LWE 60S (62 CHS/61 OGB) AROUND 60 MIGHT BE BETTER...SINCE THERE WL BE SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS AS SHOWN BY SATIMG. CWF...DO. NOT EXPECT TO MAKE ANY MAJOR CHANGES ON CWF. .CHS...NONE. JH
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 3, 5:35 PM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
535 PM EDT SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0305 PM MARTIN SC WIND DAMAGE
05/03/98 ALLENDALE TREES DOWNED ACROSS ROAD
AND POWER LINES WITHIN 10
MILE RADIUS - DISPATCH
REPORT
ML/DGLocal storm report, May 3, 6:04 PM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
604 PM EDT SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM LINCOLNVILLE SC WIND DAMAGE
05/03/98 CHARLESTON TREES/TREE LIMBS DOWNED
LINCOLNVILLE RD (TIME OF
EVENT ESTIMATED)
DISPATCH REPORTLocal storm report, May 3, 6:04 PM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
604 PM EDT SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0425 PM LINCOLNVILLE SC WIND DAMAGE
05/03/98 CHARLESTON TREES/TREE LIMBS DOWNED
LINCOLNVILLE RD (TIME OF
EVENT ESTIMATED)
DISPATCH REPORTLocal storm report, May 3, 6:58 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
658 PM EDT SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM 15 SE BEAUFORT SC .88 INCH HAIL
05/03/98 BEAUFORT FRIPP ISLAND SECURITY.
NICKEL HAILLocal storm report, May 3, 10:46 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1046 PM EDT SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1045 PM HAGAN GA 1 INCH HAIL
05/03/98 EVANS QUARTER SIZE HAIL. SPOTTER
REPORTLocal storm report, May 3, 11:12 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1112 PM EDT SUN MAY 03 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1108 PM PEMBROKE GA 1 INCH HAIL
05/03/98 BRYAN .88 TO 1 INCH HAIL
DISPATCH REPORTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 11:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 59 min |
| May 3, 11:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 59 min |
| May 4, 12:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston, Colleton | 61 min |
| May 4, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale | 32 min |
| May 4, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 47 min |
| May 4, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 47 min |
| May 4, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 49 min |
| May 4, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 33 min |
| May 4, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 50 min |
| May 4, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 46 min |
| May 4, 3:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Charleston | 34 min |
| May 4, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 62 min |
| May 4, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 63 min |
| May 3, 10:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 49 min |
| May 3, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Evans | 36 min |
| May 3, 10:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch | 47 min |
| May 3, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 30 min |
| May 4, 3:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 48 min |
| May 4, 4:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 50 min |
| May 4, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 47 min |
| May 4, 1:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 62 min |
| May 4, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long | 63 min |
| May 4, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 35 min |
| May 4, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan | 48 min |
| May 4, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.