Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 4:54 AM EDT for Boyd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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, 4:54 AM EDT (08:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 5:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boyd County, KY
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 100854 RRA SVRCRW KYC019-100930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 454 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST KENTUCKY ...EASTERN BOYD COUNTY AT 450 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL BOYD COUNTY NEAR ALLEY. THIS STORM WAS TRACKING SOUTHEAST AND WILL REACH CULBERSTON BY 505 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, 46 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, 2:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 2:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 3:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Carter | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenup | 54 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.