Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 343, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1998, 6:58 PM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 1998, 6:58 PM EDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 7:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 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 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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
- 1483 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 4:58 PM EDT, 2 hours before
OHZ068-072142- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 458 PM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NOBLE COUNTY OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE STORM WEAKENED AND MOVED INTO MONROE COUNTY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 7:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Guernsey, Noble | 42 min |
| Sep 7, 7:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 43 min |
| Sep 7, 8:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Belmont, Jefferson | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Noble | 57 min |
| Sep 7, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 46 min |
| Sep 7, 8:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler, Venango | 56 min |
| Sep 7, 8:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 40 min |
| Sep 7, 8:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver, Washington | 57 min |
| Sep 7, 8:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest | 59 min |
| Sep 7, 9:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Westmoreland | 59 min |
| Sep 7, 8:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke, Hancock | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 8:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Ohio | 60 min |
| Sep 7, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 45 min |
| Sep 7, 5:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 30 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.