Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 46, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Sep 7, 1998, 5:51 PM EDT for Wetzel County, West Virginia. It was in force for 30 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, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 6:21 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
873 WFUS1 KPIT 072152 RRA TORPIT WVC103-072221- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 551 PM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WETZEL COUNTY IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 621 PM EDT. * AT 550 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR THE TOWN OF...SOUTH OF JACKSONBURG...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SMITHFIELD 555 PM. FOLSOM 600 PM. <<CALL TO ACTION>>GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR .END/
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Sep 7, 12:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA
1253 PM EDT MON SEP 07 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0758 AM 3 E SHARON PA WIND DAMAGE
09/07/98 MERCER TREES DOWN
0908 AM LEEPER PA WIND DAMAGE
09/07/98 CLARION TREE DOWNSpecial weather statement, Sep 7, 12:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ029-031-WVZ001>004-012-021-022- 072300- SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1253 PM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 ...STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND... THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY REDEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS SOUTH THROUGH THE AREA. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP IS ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS SHOULD BE STRONG GUSTY THUNDERSTORM WINDS EXCEEDING 40 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND UPDATES. UPDATES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/PIT. SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE. PLEASE REPORT ANY HAIL OR WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH OR GREATER OR ANY STORM-RELATED DAMAGE. KB8QEV/KA3RYL/WX3PIT
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 12:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
OHZ039>041-048>050-057>059-068-069-PAZ029-031-WVZ001>004-012-021-022- 072300- SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1253 PM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 ...STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND... THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY REDEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING AS A COLD FRONT SWEEPS SOUTH THROUGH THE AREA. THE MOST LIKELY AREA FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP IS ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS SHOULD BE STRONG GUSTY THUNDERSTORM WINDS EXCEEDING 40 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND UPDATES. UPDATES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE ON OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/PIT. SKYWARN ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE. PLEASE REPORT ANY HAIL OR WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH OR GREATER OR ANY STORM-RELATED DAMAGE. KB8QEV/KA3RYL/WX3PIT
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 4:58 PM EDT, 53 minutes 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, 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, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.