Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Charleston, WV

May 23, 1988Kanawha County, Roane County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1988, 3:11 PM EDT for Kanawha County, Roane County, West Virginia. It was in force for 64 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 1988, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1988, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kanawha County, WV, Roane County, WV

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 23, 3:15 PM EDTHail 1Kanawha, WV
May 23, 3:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 87Kanawha, WV
May 23, 4:00 PM EDTHail 1Roane, WV

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 94 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1988-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1988-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXClay54 min
May 23, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton67 min
May 23, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLewis, Upshur60 min
May 23, 6:18 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXClay, Kanawha, Roane27 min
May 23, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPickaway27 min
May 23, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAllegany2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.