Alert archive / South Carolina / 1998
Weather alerts in South Carolina, February 1998
25 weather alerts in February 1998, 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 25
- Warnings
- 23
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 17, 199812 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 3, 3:08 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 4 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:08 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Oconee | 4 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg | 4 hr |
| Feb 3, 5:34 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Horry | 2 hr |
| Feb 3, 7:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Horry | 3 hr |
| Feb 4, 11:20 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 5 hr |
| Feb 4, 12:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson, Laurens | 4 hr |
| Feb 4, 7:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 2 hr |
| Feb 11, 7:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 38 min |
| Feb 16, 6:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marion | 46 min |
| Feb 17, 12:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 46 min |
| Feb 17, 5:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Horry | 3 hr |
| Feb 17, 7:55 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Horry, Marion | 2 hr |
| Feb 17, 9:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Cherokee, Chester, Edgefield and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 17, 9:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 41 min |
| Feb 17, 9:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 49 min |
| Feb 17, 10:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 41 min |
| Feb 17, 10:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 51 min |
| Feb 17, 11:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 42 min |
| Feb 17, 11:41 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 34 min |
| Feb 17, 11:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Laurens | 45 min |
| Feb 17, 12:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 5:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken, Orangeburg | 26 min |
| Feb 28, 5:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun, Lexington | 25 min |
| Feb 28, 5:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland, Sumter | 43 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 | 11 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 10 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Laurens County4
- Horry County4
- Greenwood County4
- Greenville County3
- Pickens County3
- Oconee County3
- Spartanburg County3
- Georgetown County3
- Marion County3
- Abbeville County2
- Anderson County2
- Fairfield County2
- Aiken County2
- Lexington County2
- Newberry County2
- Cherokee County1
- Chester County1
- Edgefield County1
- McCormick County1
- Saluda County1
- Union County1
- York County1
- Chesterfield County1
- Darlington County1
- Dillon County1
- Kershaw County1
- Lancaster County1
- Lee County1
- Marlboro County1
- Orangeburg County1
- Calhoun County1
- Richland County1
- Sumter 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.