Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 1998, 3:04 PM EST for Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 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
- Mar 8, 1998, 3:04 PM EST (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 3:50 PM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Horry County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 3:30 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Aynor, SC | DAMAGE IN PLEASANT VIEW COMMUNITY, OFF S.C. 917. TWO HOMES AND GARAGE DAMAGED. |
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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILM 082004 RRA TORILM SCC051-082050- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 304 PM EST SUN MAR 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A... * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN HORRY COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 350 PM EST * AT 304 PM EST... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A PAIR OF DEVELOPING TORNADOES: ONE IN THE VICINITY OF GALIVANTS FERRY AND ONE IN THE VICINITY OF AYNOR. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL REMAIN IN RURAL AREA NEAR THE LITTLE PEE DEE RIVER. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LAY DOWN IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 2:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Dillon | 32 min |
| Mar 8, 2:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Marion | 29 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.