Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Charleston, WV

June 10, 1998Lincoln County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 5:32 AM EDT for Lincoln County, West Virginia. It was in force for 13 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, 5:32 AM EDT (09:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1998, 5:45 AM EDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 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, 5:40 AM EDT	Hail 1.75	Ranger, 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 1 hour 24 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, 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, 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
Jun 10, 1:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	41 min
Jun 10, 2:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Lawrence	40 min
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
Jun 10, 4:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boyd	36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.