Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1998, 5:55 PM EDT for Marshall County, West Virginia. It was in force for 38 min. 9 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 24, 1998, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1998, 6:33 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marshall County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:15 PM EDT | Hail 1.5 | Moundsville, WV | Hail, between 0.88 and 1.50 inches in diameter fell in Moundsville. Some damage to cars was reported. |
| May 24, 6:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Moundsville, WV | |
| May 24, 6:18 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Moundsville, WV | Numerous trees and large limbs were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 24, 6:18 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Moundsville, WV | |
| May 24, 6:18 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Moundsville, WV | |
| May 24, 6:25 PM EDT | Hail 2.5 | Moundsville, WV | Hail, up to baseball size, damaged farm machinery. |
| May 24, 6:26 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Glendale, WV | Trees were downed by thunderstorm winds. |
| May 24, 6:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.5 | Cameron, WV | |
| May 24, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cameron, 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 242158 COR SVRPIT WVC051-242233- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 555 PM EDT SUN MAY 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MARSHALL COUNTY IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA * UNTIL 633 PM EDT * AT 555 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHADYSIDE OHIO...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF... MOUNDSVILLE BY 605 PM LIMESTONE BY 615 PM PLEASANT VALLEY BY 615 PM DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! WJK/RSD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 6:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 24 min |
| May 24, 6:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 33 min |
| May 24, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 38 min |
| May 24, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion | 45 min |
| May 24, 7:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 38 min |
| May 24, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 66 min |
| May 24, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 63 min |
| May 24, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monongalia | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.