Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 12:34 AM EDT for Wirt County, West Virginia. It was in force for 51 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 13, 1998, 12:34 AM EDT (04:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 1:25 AM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wirt County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 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 13, 12:38 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Elizabeth, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 1057 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
388 WUUS1 KCRW 130433 RRA SVRCRW WVC105-130525- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1234 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WIRT COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 125 AM EDT. * AT 1233 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF ELIZABETH MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NEWARK AROUND 1235 AM EDT. ELIZABETH AROUND 1235 AM EDT. PALESTINE AROUND 1240 AM EDT. BURNING SPRINGS AROUND 1245 AM EDT. CRESTON AROUND 1250 AM EDT. <<CALL TO ACTION>>THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PLEASE REPORT ANY HAIL OR STRONG WINDS BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 877-633-6772. .END/SIKORA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 2:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Putnam | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.