Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 2:40 AM EDT for Cabell County, Mason County, West Virginia. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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, 2:40 AM EDT (06:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 3:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabell County, WV, Mason County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:42 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, 2:55 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Apple Grove, 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.
816 WUUS1 KCRW 100641 RRA SVRCRW WVC011-053-100730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 240 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...CABELL COUNTY...MASON COUNTY AT 235 AM CHARLESTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD WESTERN MASON AND CABELL COUNTIES. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODCUED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN GALLIA COUNTY OHIO. STORMS WILL TRACK NEAR GLENWOOD IN SOUTHERN MASON COUNTY...AND NEAR COX LANDING JUST NORTHEAST OF HUNTINGTON. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. << CALL TO ACTION >> IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN ...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 3:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 3:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 37 min |
| Jun 10, 4:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 36 min |
| Jun 10, 4:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 33 min |
| Jun 10, 5:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 5:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 13 min |
| Jun 10, 7:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Taylor | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan, Wyoming | 32 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.