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Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 1998

76 tornado warnings in 1998. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
76
Busiest month
May23 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 10, 199810 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 7, 8:00 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPAnderson, Oconee30 min
Jan 8, 12:47 AM ESTTornado WarningGSPChester43 min
Jan 8, 1:02 AM ESTTornado WarningGSPYork43 min
Feb 17, 11:41 AM ESTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood34 min
Feb 17, 11:45 AM ESTTornado WarningGSPLaurens45 min
Mar 8, 1:06 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEBamberg, Orangeburg69 min
Mar 8, 2:04 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEClarendon41 min
Mar 8, 2:48 PM ESTTornado WarningILMDillon32 min
Mar 8, 2:56 PM ESTTornado WarningILMMarion29 min
Mar 8, 3:04 PM ESTTornado WarningILMHorry46 min
Apr 3, 7:15 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSJasper50 min
Apr 3, 7:30 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSBeaufort40 min
Apr 3, 9:12 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEMcCormick18 min
Apr 3, 9:18 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood42 min
Apr 3, 9:36 PM ESTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield, Saluda39 min
Apr 3, 10:19 PM ESTTornado WarningCAELexington56 min
Apr 9, 6:13 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSJasper17 min
Apr 9, 6:27 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSBeaufort33 min
Apr 9, 6:58 AM EDTTornado WarningILMGeorgetown, Williamsburg47 min
Apr 9, 7:15 AM EDTTornado WarningILMHorry30 min
Apr 17, 2:50 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPPickens45 min
Apr 19, 2:38 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPLaurens32 min
Apr 19, 3:21 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPYork34 min
Apr 19, 3:59 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPYork31 min
Apr 19, 4:36 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPYork34 min
May 4, 3:41 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSCharleston34 min
May 7, 4:34 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSColleton46 min
May 7, 5:11 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPOconee34 min
May 7, 5:15 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSCharleston45 min
May 7, 6:14 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville, Anderson46 min
May 7, 6:23 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood47 min
May 7, 7:10 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield35 min
May 7, 7:45 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAnderson50 min
May 7, 7:46 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield, Saluda29 min
May 7, 7:57 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEMcCormick33 min
May 7, 8:07 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield53 min
May 7, 8:22 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEAiken53 min
May 7, 11:59 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEMcCormick31 min
May 10, 4:04 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEOrangeburg26 min
May 10, 4:39 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSDorchester46 min
May 10, 5:00 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSBerkeley60 min
May 10, 5:19 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSCharleston61 min
May 10, 5:23 PM EDTTornado WarningCAESumter37 min
May 10, 5:36 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEClarendon39 min
May 10, 6:00 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSBerkeley20 min
May 10, 6:10 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSCharleston40 min
May 10, 6:49 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSBerkeley61 min
May 10, 7:29 PM EDTTornado WarningILMWilliamsburg31 min
Jun 2, 9:46 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPAnderson49 min
Jun 2, 11:29 AM EDTTornado WarningCAESaluda31 min
Jun 2, 1:15 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSBeaufort55 min
Jun 4, 3:34 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield56 min
Jun 4, 6:35 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPChester30 min
Jun 4, 7:02 PM EDTTornado WarningCAELancaster28 min
Jun 4, 8:11 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEAiken34 min
Jun 5, 8:24 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee31 min
Jun 6, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPSpartanburg, Union32 min
Jun 9, 6:52 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEMcCormick68 min
Jun 9, 7:21 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield24 min
Jun 10, 11:42 AM EDTTornado WarningILMFlorence, Williamsburg33 min
Jun 10, 2:06 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSCharleston19 min
Jun 14, 6:28 PM EDTTornado WarningCAENewberry, Saluda32 min
Jun 14, 6:48 PM EDTTornado WarningCAELexington42 min
Jun 19, 5:03 PM EDTTornado WarningILMFlorence32 min
Jul 27, 2:21 PM EDTTornado WarningILMHorry34 min
Sep 3, 8:16 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSBeaufort49 min
Sep 3, 8:40 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSColleton30 min
Sep 3, 1:09 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSBerkeley46 min
Sep 3, 1:21 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSColleton49 min
Sep 3, 1:36 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEOrangeburg24 min
Sep 3, 1:49 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSDorchester46 min
Sep 3, 1:55 PM EDTTornado WarningILMWilliamsburg30 min
Sep 3, 2:11 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEOrangeburg34 min
Sep 3, 2:11 PM EDTTornado WarningILMGeorgetown34 min
Sep 8, 2:47 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPChester18 min
Sep 8, 2:50 PM EDTTornado WarningCAELancaster25 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 10, 199810tornado warnings
  2. May 7, 19989tornado warnings
  3. September 3, 19989tornado warnings
  4. April 4, 19986tornado warnings
  5. March 8, 19985tornado warnings
  6. April 9, 19984tornado warnings
  7. April 19, 19984tornado warnings
  8. January 8, 19983tornado warnings
  9. May 8, 19983tornado warnings
  10. June 2, 19983tornado warnings
  11. June 4, 19983tornado warnings
  12. February 17, 19982tornado warnings

Nearby

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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.