Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Feb 17, 1998, 11:41 AM EST for Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was in force for 34 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
- Feb 17, 1998, 11:41 AM EST (16:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 1998, 12:15 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenwood County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 11:45 AM EST | Hail 1 | Cokesbury, SC | |
| Feb 17, 11:45 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Cokesbury, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 9:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 626 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 581 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
609 WFUS1 KGSP 171640 RRA TORGSP SCC047-171715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 1141 AM EST TUE FEB 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...NORTHERN GREENWOOD COUNTY AT 1137 AM A TORNADO WAS SHOWN DEVELOPING NEAR HODGES OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF GREENWOOD. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST ABOUT 50 MPH ACROSS COKESBURY TO THE LAURENS COUNTY BORDER SHORTLY AFTER 1145 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. A WARNING MAY BE ISSUED FOR LAURENS COUNTY SOON. THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GREENWOOD COUNTY. JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 9:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 41 min |
| Feb 17, 9:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 49 min |
| Feb 17, 10:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 41 min |
| Feb 17, 10:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 51 min |
| Feb 17, 11:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Laurens | 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.