Alert archive / South Carolina / 1998
Weather alerts in South Carolina, September 1998
37 weather alerts in September 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 September 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 37
- Warnings
- 34
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- September 3, 199818 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 6:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 6:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 8:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 49 min |
| Sep 3, 8:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton | 30 min |
| Sep 3, 9:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 3, 10:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 47 min |
| Sep 3, 11:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 32 min |
| Sep 3, 12:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton | 36 min |
| Sep 3, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 50 min |
| Sep 3, 1:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 46 min |
| Sep 3, 1:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Colleton | 49 min |
| Sep 3, 1:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 24 min |
| Sep 3, 1:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 46 min |
| Sep 3, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 30 min |
| Sep 3, 2:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 34 min |
| Sep 3, 2:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 34 min |
| Sep 3, 4:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Lexington | 6 hr |
| Sep 3, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 7, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 33 min |
| Sep 8, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Florence and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 8, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 47 min |
| Sep 8, 2:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester | 18 min |
| Sep 8, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 25 min |
| Sep 8, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 33 min |
| Sep 8, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 42 min |
| Sep 8, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 53 min |
| Sep 8, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 41 min |
| Sep 8, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 38 min |
| Sep 8, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Williamsburg | 30 min |
| Sep 8, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 34 min |
| Sep 8, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 48 min |
| Sep 8, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 50 min |
| Sep 8, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 63 min |
| Sep 8, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 31 min |
| Sep 8, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 62 min |
| Sep 21, 8:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 2 hr |
| Sep 21, 10:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 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 | 20 |
| Tornado Warning | 11 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Berkeley County7
- Orangeburg County6
- Charleston County5
- Sumter County5
- Clarendon County4
- Dorchester County4
- Georgetown County4
- Horry County4
- Williamsburg County4
- Jasper County3
- Beaufort County3
- Colleton County3
- Calhoun County3
- Darlington County3
- Dillon County3
- Florence County3
- Kershaw County3
- Lee County3
- Marion County3
- Marlboro County3
- Richland County3
- Chesterfield County2
- Hampton County2
- Lancaster County2
- Chester County2
- Aiken County1
- Allendale County1
- Bamberg County1
- Barnwell County1
- Lexington County1
- Spartanburg County1
- Laurens County1
- Newberry 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.