Alert archive / South Carolina / 1997
Weather alerts in South Carolina, May 1997
39 weather alerts in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 39
- Warnings
- 34
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 3, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 34 min |
| May 3, 7:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 38 min |
| May 3, 7:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Richland | 46 min |
| May 3, 7:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 54 min |
| May 3, 8:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Kershaw, Lee and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 8:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Marlboro | 37 min |
| May 3, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 12:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Barnwell | 55 min |
| May 3, 1:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale | 52 min |
| May 3, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 69 min |
| May 3, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 65 min |
| May 3, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown and 3 more | 4 hr |
| May 3, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 37 min |
| May 3, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 59 min |
| May 3, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton, Jasper | 59 min |
| May 3, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 29 min |
| May 9, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton | 50 min |
| May 9, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 53 min |
| May 9, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 55 min |
| May 9, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 25 min |
| May 9, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper | 4 hr |
| May 9, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 58 min |
| May 9, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton | 68 min |
| May 9, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 45 min |
| May 15, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 29 min |
| May 15, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 68 min |
| May 26, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 34 min |
| May 26, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 69 min |
| May 26, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 32 min |
| May 26, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 49 min |
| May 26, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 47 min |
| May 26, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 45 min |
| May 26, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 58 min |
| May 26, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 60 min |
| May 31, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 37 min |
| May 31, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 28 min |
| May 31, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Calhoun and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 41 min |
| May 31, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Lexington | 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 | 32 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Tornado 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.
- Lexington County8
- Charleston County8
- Colleton County8
- Richland County6
- Georgetown County6
- Hampton County6
- Beaufort County5
- Jasper County5
- Bamberg County4
- Berkeley County4
- Dorchester County4
- Allendale County3
- Barnwell County3
- Williamsburg County3
- Kershaw County2
- Darlington County2
- Florence County2
- Lee County2
- Marion County2
- Marlboro County2
- Aiken County2
- Calhoun County2
- Edgefield County2
- Horry County2
- McCormick County2
- Orangeburg County2
- Sumter County2
- Greenville County1
- Lancaster County1
- Chesterfield County1
- Dillon County1
- Clarendon County1
- Chester County1
- Fairfield County1
- Greenwood County1
- Newberry County1
- Saluda 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.