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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 301, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

September 8, 1998Laurens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1998, 2:52 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 33 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: Sep 8, 1998, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
Expired: Sep 8, 1998, 3:25 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Laurens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Sep 8, 2:53 PM EDT	Hail 1	Laurens, SC	Numerous reports of hail, some up to quarter size were received from several spotters around Laurens and Clinton

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 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 Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 8, 2:30 PM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 2:30 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 8, 10:48 AM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Sep 8, 1:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
109 PM EDT TUE SEP 08 1998

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

1251 PM    2 NE HARRISBURG           NC   TORNADO
09/08/98   CABARRUS                       REPORTED BY FIRE
                                          DEPARTMENT.  TREES DOWN
                                          AND ROOFS OFF BUILDINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 8, 10:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rowan	28 min
Sep 8, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	47 min
Sep 8, 2:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Chester	18 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.