Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Feb 17, 1998, 11:45 AM EST for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 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
- Feb 17, 1998, 11:45 AM EST (16:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 1998, 12:30 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laurens County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 12:03 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Laurens, 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1239 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGSP 171645 RRA TORGSP SCC059-171730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 1145 AM EST TUE FEB 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...LAURENS COUNTY AT 1143 AM RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO LIKELY OCCURRING IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR COKESBURY IN GREENWOOD COUNTY. THE STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE WESTERN PART OF LAURENS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE NORTHERN PART OF LAKE GREENWOOD...PERHAPS REACHING NEAR THE CITY OF LAURENS AROUND NOON OR SHORTLY AFTER. TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH ARE HARD TO SEE BECAUSE OF RAIN...LOW CLOUDS...AND TREES. TAKE COVER NOW...DO NOT TRY TO WAIT ON THE STORM AND DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN IT. 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, 11:41 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 34 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.