Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 2:05 AM EDT for Gallia County, Lawrence County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 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, 2:05 AM EDT (06:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 2:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gallia County, OH, Lawrence County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:07 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 10, 2:20 AM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Gallia, OH | |
| Jun 10, 2:30 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Getaway, OH |
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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 612 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
671 WUUS1 KCRW 100608 RRA SVRCRW OHC053-087-100645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 205 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...WESTERN GALLIA COUNTY...NORTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY AT 2:05 AM CHARLESTON WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY OHIO. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY BY 2:10 AM. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS WASHINGTON...DECATUR AND SYMMES TOWNSHIPS DURING THE NEXT HALF HOUR. THE STORM WILL ALSO TRACK SOUTEAST ALONG THE WESTERN PORTION OF GALLIA COUNTY AND WILL MOVE ACROSS GREENFIELD...WALNUT...HARRISON AND GUYAON TOWNSHIPS. << CALL TO ACTION >> WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 1:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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.