Alert archive / South Carolina / 1997
Weather alerts in South Carolina, February 1997
23 weather alerts in February 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 February 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 23
- Warnings
- 20
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 21, 199720 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 3:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Chester, Edgefield, Greenville and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 21, 3:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 46 min |
| Feb 21, 3:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Pickens | 46 min |
| Feb 21, 3:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 41 min |
| Feb 21, 4:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 35 min |
| Feb 21, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 30 min |
| Feb 21, 4:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg | 37 min |
| Feb 21, 4:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Union | 46 min |
| Feb 21, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Berkeley, Calhoun and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 21, 5:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 39 min |
| Feb 21, 5:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 39 min |
| Feb 21, 5:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 55 min |
| Feb 21, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 66 min |
| Feb 21, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 66 min |
| Feb 21, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 67 min |
| Feb 21, 5:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 6:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 66 min |
| Feb 21, 6:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 6:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 65 min |
| Feb 21, 6:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Marlboro | 73 min |
| Feb 21, 7:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dillon, Horry, Marion | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville | 3 hr |
| Feb 28, 2:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Pickens | 3 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 | 17 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greenville County3
- Pickens County3
- Anderson County2
- Cherokee County2
- Chester County2
- Edgefield County2
- Greenwood County2
- Laurens County2
- Newberry County2
- Oconee County2
- Saluda County2
- Spartanburg County2
- Union County2
- York County2
- Chesterfield County2
- Darlington County2
- Dillon County2
- Fairfield County2
- Horry County2
- Kershaw County2
- Lancaster County2
- Lee County2
- Lexington County2
- Marion County2
- Marlboro County2
- Richland County2
- Sumter County2
- Abbeville County1
- McCormick County1
- Aiken County1
- Allendale County1
- Bamberg County1
- Barnwell County1
- Berkeley County1
- Calhoun County1
- Charleston County1
- Clarendon County1
- Colleton County1
- Dorchester County1
- Florence 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.