Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 1:50 PM EDT for Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was in force for 55 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
- Jun 19, 1998, 1:50 PM EDT (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenwood County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Greenwood, SC | |
| Jun 19, 2:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Ware Shoals, SC |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 1794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1186 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 12:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Union | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 23 min |
| Jun 19, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 12:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1998Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.