Alert archive / South Carolina / 1997
Weather alerts in South Carolina, April 1997
63 weather alerts in April 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 63
- Warnings
- 56
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 23, 199729 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Saluda | 25 min |
| Apr 21, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry, Marion | 48 min |
| Apr 21, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 39 min |
| Apr 21, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 21, 11:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 45 min |
| Apr 22, 12:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 37 min |
| Apr 22, 12:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 1:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 60 min |
| Apr 22, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 30 min |
| Apr 22, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 48 min |
| Apr 22, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 43 min |
| Apr 22, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 32 min |
| Apr 22, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Marlboro | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 58 min |
| Apr 22, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry, Marion | 69 min |
| Apr 22, 6:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Barnwell, Cherokee, Chester and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 38 min |
| Apr 22, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 45 min |
| Apr 22, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 14 min |
| Apr 22, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 39 min |
| Apr 22, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Saluda | 68 min |
| Apr 22, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 39 min |
| Apr 22, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 62 min |
| Apr 22, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 24 min |
| Apr 22, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 68 min |
| Apr 22, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 49 min |
| Apr 22, 8:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allendale, Bamberg, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston and 18 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 22, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 44 min |
| Apr 22, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 35 min |
| Apr 22, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 62 min |
| Apr 22, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Richland | 62 min |
| Apr 22, 9:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 28 min |
| Apr 22, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 61 min |
| Apr 22, 10:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 51 min |
| Apr 22, 10:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 10:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Florence | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 10:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 10:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry, Marion | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 10:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 33 min |
| Apr 22, 10:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 47 min |
| Apr 22, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Jasper | 5 hr |
| Apr 22, 11:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry, Marion | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 12:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale | 63 min |
| Apr 23, 1:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 1:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 1:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 27 min |
| Apr 23, 1:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon, Sumter | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 2:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 2:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marion | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allendale, Hampton, Jasper | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Horry | 3 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Abbeville, Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 47 min |
| Apr 28, 7:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Laurens | 27 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 50 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Horry County7
- Abbeville County7
- Laurens County7
- Marion County6
- Florence County6
- Barnwell County5
- Oconee County5
- Union County5
- Calhoun County5
- Allendale County5
- Bamberg County5
- Jasper County5
- Orangeburg County5
- Saluda County4
- Anderson County4
- Greenwood County4
- Pickens County4
- Fairfield County4
- Aiken County4
- Lexington County4
- Sumter County4
- Clarendon County4
- Georgetown County4
- Hampton County4
- Chester County3
- Edgefield County3
- McCormick County3
- Richland County3
- Beaufort County3
- Colleton County3
- Williamsburg County3
- Cherokee County2
- Greenville County2
- Spartanburg County2
- York County2
- Chesterfield County2
- Kershaw County2
- Lancaster County2
- Darlington County2
- Marlboro County2
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.