Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1998, 6:08 PM EDT for Washington County, Maryland; Berkeley County, Jefferson County, West Virginia. It was in force for 32 min. 6 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
- Jun 16, 1998, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 6:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Washington County, MD, Berkeley County, WV, Jefferson County, WV
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Martinsburg, WV | |
| Jun 16, 6:12 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Halfway, MD | |
| Jun 16, 6:21 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Halfway, MD | |
| Jun 16, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Maugansville, MD | |
| Jun 16, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Hagerstown Arpt, MD | |
| Jun 16, 6:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Leitersburg, MD |
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 71 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Augusta, City of Staunton, City of Waynesboro | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Greene, Madison | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, City of Charlottesville | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Nelson | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Rockingham, City of Harrisonburg | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Loudoun, Prince William | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Orange | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, City of Charlottesville | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Spotsylvania | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick, Montgomery | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick, Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 16, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Howard | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Carroll | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 6:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Carroll | 2 hr |
| Jun 16, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Saint Mary's | 49 min |
| Jun 16, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Calvert | 32 min |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.