Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 4:30 AM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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 19, 1998, 4:30 AM EDT (08:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 5:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tucker County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 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 19, 4:45 AM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Parsons, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 19, 3:51 AM EDT, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
351 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0345 AM CHAMPION PA .88 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 FAYETTEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 5:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey | 35 min |
| Jun 19, 6:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Belmont | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 4 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 37 min |
| Jun 19, 3:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 40 min |
| Jun 19, 4:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 11:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.