Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 4:34 AM EDT for Buchanan County, Virginia. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 10, 1998, 4:34 AM EDT (08:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 5:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buchanan County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 492 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 514 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 KCRW 100834 RRA SVRCRW VAC027-100915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 434 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ...BUCHANAN COUNTY AT 4:30 AM EDT CHARLESTON WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST ABOUT TO ENTER NORTHWESTERN BUCHAHAN COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL REACH MAXIE AND PAW PAW AROUND 4:45 AM...HURLEY AROUND 4:50 AM AND GRUNDY AROUND 4:55 AM. << 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 DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jun 10, 4:08 AM EDT, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
408 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 AM BARTLICK VA .88 INCH HAIL
06/10/98 DICKENSON 1.5 SW
0216 AM WEST DANTE VA 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/10/98 DICKENSON
0220 AM GALLIA OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/10/98 GALLIA GREENFIELD TOWNSHIP
0230 AM GETAWAY OH WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 LAWRENCE TREES DOWN ALONG MCKINNEY
CREEK AND CO RD 36
0255 AM APPLE GROVE WV .75 INCH HAIL
06/10/98 MASONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 1:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Dickenson | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 4:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 4 hr |
| 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.