Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings / 1998

Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, May 1998

23 tornado warnings in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 23
Busiest day: May 10, 199810 tornado warnings

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 4, 3:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston	34 min
May 7, 4:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Colleton	46 min
May 7, 5:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Oconee	34 min
May 7, 5:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston	45 min
May 7, 6:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson	46 min
May 7, 6:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenwood	47 min
May 7, 7:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Edgefield	35 min
May 7, 7:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Anderson	50 min
May 7, 7:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Edgefield, Saluda	29 min
May 7, 7:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	McCormick	33 min
May 7, 8:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Edgefield	53 min
May 7, 8:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Aiken	53 min
May 7, 11:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	McCormick	31 min
May 10, 4:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	26 min
May 10, 4:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Dorchester	46 min
May 10, 5:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Berkeley	60 min
May 10, 5:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston	61 min
May 10, 5:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Sumter	37 min
May 10, 5:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Clarendon	39 min
May 10, 6:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Berkeley	20 min
May 10, 6:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston	40 min
May 10, 6:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Berkeley	61 min
May 10, 7:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Williamsburg	31 min

By county

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

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.