Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jan 8, 1998, 1:02 AM EST for York County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 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
- Jan 8, 1998, 1:02 AM EST (06:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1998, 1:45 AM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 1:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Rock Hill, 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 nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
768 WFUS1 KGSP 080604 RRA TORGSP SCC091-080645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 102 AM EST THU JAN 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...YORK COUNTY WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO MOVING INTO YORK COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCCONNELS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. EXPECT THE TORNADO TO PASS NEAR ROCK HILL BY 130 AM...THEN ON TO FORT MILL AREA BY 145 AM. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO YOUR BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A DITCH. SAB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee | 30 min |
| Jan 7, 10:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 12:47 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester | 43 min |
| Jan 8, 3:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Pickens | 4 hr |
| Jan 8, 6:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 26 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.