Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 1:42 AM EDT for Dickenson County, Virginia. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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 10, 1998, 1:42 AM EDT (05:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickenson County, VA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 1:50 AM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Bartlick, VA | Nickel size hail fell around the John Flannagan Lake. |
| Jun 10, 2:16 AM EDT | Hail 1.25 | West Dante, VA |
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
585 WUUS1 KCRW 100543 RRA SVRCRW VAC051-100630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 142 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ...DICKENSON COUNTY AT 140 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING ALONG THE PIKE AND DICKENSON COUNTY LINE...NEAR FLAT GAP. THIS STORM WAS TRACKING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. << CALL TO ACTION >> SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 4:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 7:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Dickenson | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 8:13 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 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.