Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 2:14 PM EDT for Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was in force for 46 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 13, 1998, 2:14 PM EDT (18:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 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 18:17 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 12:00Z, 6.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
379 WUUS1 KCRW 131814 RRA SVRCRW WVC039-131900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 214 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KANAWHA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 300 PM EDT. * AT 211 PM EDT... SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF CHARLESTON OR IN THE VICINITY OF NITRO AND TORNADO MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SAINT ALBANS AROUND 211 PM EDT. ALUM CREEK AROUND 211 PM EDT. CROSS LANES AROUND 215 PM EDT. INSTITUTE AROUND 215 PM EDT. RUTH AROUND 220 PM EDT. CHARLESTON AROUND 230 PM EDT. SISSONVILLE AROUND 235 PM EDT. MARMET AROUND 235 PM EDT. <<CALL TO ACTION>>DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS PLEASE REPORT ANY HAIL OR STRONG WINDS BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 877-633-6772. .END/RY &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 12:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wirt | 51 min |
| 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, 2:22 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.