Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Charleston, WV

June 10, 1998Kanawha County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 4:42 AM EDT for Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was in force for 33 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, 4:42 AM EDT (08:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1998, 5:15 AM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Kanawha County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:43 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 219 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

401 
WUUS1 KCRW 100843 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC039-100915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
442 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 WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...SOUTHERN KANAWHA COUNTY
 
AT 440 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
IN EASTERN BOONE COUNTY THAT WAS TRACKING TOWARDS SOUTHERN KANAWHA
COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL REACH LEEWOOD BY 450 AM...AND DAKOTA BY 455 AM.
LARGE HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.
 
 
<< 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.

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, 34 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   MASON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 2:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason	50 min
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, 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, 1998 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.