Alert archive / South Carolina / 1998
Weather alerts in South Carolina, March 1998
31 weather alerts in March 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 March 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 31
- Warnings
- 26
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- March 21, 19989 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 28, 10:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 47 min |
| Feb 28, 10:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston, Colleton | 54 min |
| Mar 8, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McCormick | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 1:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 69 min |
| Mar 8, 1:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 37 min |
| Mar 8, 2:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 41 min |
| Mar 8, 2:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Dillon | 32 min |
| Mar 8, 2:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Marion | 29 min |
| Mar 8, 3:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry | 46 min |
| Mar 8, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Horry | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 7:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 8:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 58 min |
| Mar 8, 9:01 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Cherokee, Chester, Fairfield, Greenville, Lancaster and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 20, 1:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 2:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 27 min |
| Mar 20, 3:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Lee and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 20, 3:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 39 min |
| Mar 20, 6:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 38 min |
| Mar 20, 6:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 6:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 51 min |
| Mar 20, 7:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion, Marlboro | 5 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 7:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 7:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 7:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 39 min |
| Mar 20, 7:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 33 min |
| Mar 20, 8:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marion | 33 min |
| Mar 20, 8:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 36 min |
| Mar 20, 8:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marion | 28 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 | 20 |
| Tornado Warning | 5 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dillon County5
- Marion County5
- Horry County4
- Florence County4
- Beaufort County3
- Darlington County3
- Lee County3
- Marlboro County3
- Greenville County2
- Lancaster County2
- York County2
- Sumter County2
- Charleston County1
- Colleton County1
- McCormick County1
- Bamberg County1
- Orangeburg County1
- Calhoun County1
- Clarendon County1
- Jasper County1
- Anderson County1
- Cherokee County1
- Chester County1
- Fairfield County1
- Laurens County1
- Oconee County1
- Pickens County1
- Spartanburg County1
- Union County1
- Georgetown County1
- Williamsburg County1
- Chesterfield 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.