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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCalhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Florence and 10 more6 hr
Aug 5, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBamberg47 min
Aug 5, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg47 min
Aug 5, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBerkeley63 min
Aug 5, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion68 min
Aug 5, 3:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMGeorgetown49 min
Aug 5, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSColleton67 min
Aug 5, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSCharleston, Dorchester57 min
Aug 5, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield52 min
Aug 5, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry48 min
Aug 5, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee42 min
Aug 5, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland56 min
Aug 5, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPYork68 min
Aug 5, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee, Pickens54 min
Aug 5, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson59 min
Aug 5, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville, Greenwood61 min
Aug 5, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville45 min
Aug 5, 8:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMDarlington, Florence62 min
Aug 16, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEChesterfield43 min
Aug 16, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort43 min
Aug 16, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSColleton40 min
Aug 16, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBamberg, Barnwell45 min
Aug 16, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMFlorence, Marion, Williamsburg43 min
Aug 19, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort55 min
Aug 20, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAESumter65 min
Aug 28, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester, York57 min
Aug 28, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarion40 min
Aug 30, 1:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSColleton40 min
Aug 30, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSJasper48 min
Aug 30, 4:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILMMarlboro2 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

Nearby

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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.