Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1998, 2:09 PM EDT for Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 51 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 10, 1998, 2:09 PM EDT (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Screven County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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 10, 2:20 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Newington, GA | An above ground swimming pool destroyed, out buildings destroyed, minor roof damage to homes and numerous trees snapped off or uprooted. |
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 10, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
622 WFUS1 KCHS 101810 RRA TORCHS GAC251-101900- BULLETIN...EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 209 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN SCREVEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN GEORGIA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 208 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO WESTERN SCREVEN COUNTY ... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CAPTOLA AT 220 PM IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SLB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 1:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jenkins | 46 min |
| May 10, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 59 min |
| May 10, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Effingham | 45 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.