Alert archive / South Carolina / 1997
Weather alerts in South Carolina, August 1997
30 weather alerts in August 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 August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 30
- Warnings
- 29
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 5, 199716 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Florence and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 63 min |
| Aug 5, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 68 min |
| Aug 5, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 67 min |
| Aug 5, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston, Dorchester | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 56 min |
| Aug 5, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 68 min |
| Aug 5, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 54 min |
| Aug 5, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 59 min |
| Aug 5, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 45 min |
| Aug 5, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 62 min |
| Aug 16, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 43 min |
| Aug 16, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 40 min |
| Aug 16, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Marion, Williamsburg | 43 min |
| Aug 19, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 55 min |
| Aug 20, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 65 min |
| Aug 28, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 57 min |
| Aug 28, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marion | 40 min |
| Aug 30, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 40 min |
| Aug 30, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 48 min |
| Aug 30, 4:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 2 hr |
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 | 28 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Florence County3
- Marion County3
- Colleton County3
- Chesterfield County2
- Darlington County2
- Georgetown County2
- Horry County2
- Marlboro County2
- Richland County2
- Sumter County2
- Williamsburg County2
- Bamberg County2
- York County2
- Abbeville County2
- Beaufort County2
- Calhoun County1
- Clarendon County1
- Dillon County1
- Kershaw County1
- Lee County1
- Orangeburg County1
- Spartanburg County1
- Berkeley County1
- Union County1
- Charleston County1
- Dorchester County1
- Fairfield County1
- Cherokee County1
- Oconee County1
- Pickens County1
- Anderson County1
- Greenwood County1
- Barnwell County1
- Chester County1
- Jasper County1
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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.