Alert archive / South Carolina / 1997
Weather alerts in South Carolina, March 1997
12 weather alerts in March 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 12
- Warnings
- 8
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 29, 19975 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Oconee | 5 hr |
| Mar 5, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg | 5 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:41 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 3:57 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 63 min |
| Mar 29, 4:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 38 min |
| Mar 29, 4:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 23 min |
| Mar 29, 4:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg | 39 min |
| Mar 29, 5:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Abbeville, Anderson, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 5:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union, York | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 9:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Colleton and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 34 min |
| Mar 31, 12:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 32 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 | 7 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Anderson County3
- Greenville County3
- Spartanburg County3
- Oconee County2
- Pickens County2
- Greenwood County2
- Fairfield County2
- Laurens County2
- Union County2
- York County2
- Berkeley County2
- Abbeville County1
- Calhoun County1
- Cherokee County1
- Chester County1
- Chesterfield County1
- Clarendon County1
- Darlington County1
- Dillon County1
- Edgefield County1
- Florence County1
- Kershaw County1
- Lancaster County1
- Lee County1
- Lexington County1
- McCormick County1
- Marion County1
- Marlboro County1
- Newberry County1
- Richland County1
- Saluda County1
- Sumter County1
- Williamsburg County1
- Allendale County1
- Bamberg County1
- Barnwell County1
- Beaufort County1
- Colleton County1
- Dorchester County1
- Hampton County1
3 more counties
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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.