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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 4, 1998Chester County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1998, 6:35 PM EDT for Chester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 1998, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1998, 7:05 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Chester County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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.

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 4, 1:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1332 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

237 
WFUS1 KGSP 042236 RRA
TORGSP
SCC023-042305-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
635 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 705 PM EDT

* AT 630 PM... SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF
  CHESTER... MOVING SOUTHEAST 25 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY
FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS.

DICARLO

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jun 4, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
240 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998

VERY BUSY. DID NOT GET THE BEST LOOK AT MDL DATA SINCE THEY WERE LATE
AND SVR WX IN CWA. LOOKS LIKE FNT TO WOBBLE ACROSS CWA THRU PERIOD.
APPEARS TO MOVE INTO SRN CWA DURING SAT. SEVERAL SHORT WAVES MOVE OVER
CWA THRU PERIOD. UPR JET IN FAVORABLE POSITION FOR LIFT. SHOULD BE HIGH
POPS TONIGHT AS STRONG/SVR TSRA CONTINUE ACROSS CWA. MOISTURE REMAINS
HIGH AND WIND FIELD REMAINS STRONG EVEN THOUGH INSTABILITY LESSENS A
LITTLE. WITH FNT SAGGING A LITTLE FARTHER SWD...MAY WANT A LITTLE LOWER
POPS SAT NRN TIER. HIGH CHC POPS ELSEWHERE AND OTHER TIMES.

FAN STILL TOO COOL. COOLING ADVERTISED BY FWC MAY BE TOO MUCH...ESP
SINCE THICKNESSES DO NOT FALL MUCH EVEN ACROSS NC. CLOUDS AND PRECIP
WOULD LOWER TEMPS SOMEWHAT. FWC STILL WAY TO GO.

AVL 69/82/65/77 6/5/5/4
CLT 72/84/68/78 6/5/5/5
GSP 70/84/67/78 6/5/5/5

RWH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 2:22 PM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
222 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

215 PM     2 W ELBERTON              GA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ELBERT                         SPOTTER REPORT

VAD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 2:22 PM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
222 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

215 PM     2 W ELBERTON              GA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ELBERT                         SPOTTER REPORT

VAD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 3:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
302 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

255 PM     FORTSONIA                 GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ELBERT                         COMMS RELAYED PUBLIC
                                          REPORT - TIME OF EVENT
                                          COULD HAVE BEEN EARLIER

VAD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 3:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
302 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

255 PM     FORTSONIA                 GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ELBERT                         COMMS RELAYED PUBLIC
                                          REPORT - TIME OF EVENT
                                          COULD HAVE BEEN EARLIER

VAD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 4:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
459 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

457 PM     6 N ANDERSON              SC   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ANDERSON                       SPOTTER 1 MILE EAST OF
                                          INTERSTATE 85 EXIT 21
                                          REPORTS QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

RWH

Local storm report, Jun 4, 4:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
459 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

457 PM     6 N ANDERSON              SC   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ANDERSON                       SPOTTER 1 MILE EAST OF
                                          INTERSTATE 85 EXIT 21
                                          REPORTS QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

RWH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 12:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	47 min
Jun 4, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	32 min
Jun 4, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	49 min
Jun 4, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	48 min
Jun 4, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenwood	48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.