Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1998, 3:43 PM EDT for Mason County, West Virginia. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports 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 15, 1998, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1998, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mason County, WV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Flatrock, WV | Large trees fell along Route 2 and Plane Valley Road. |
| Jun 15, 3:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Letart, 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 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 672 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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 15, 10:55 AM EDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0345 AM EST MON JUN 15 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1143 PM KENOVA WV PEA SIZE HAIL
06/14/98 WAYNE EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
1128 PM AND 1143 PM
1136 PM PORTSMOUTH OH FLOODING
06/14/98 SCIOTO STREAMS OVER ROADS OR
IN BUILDINGS.
EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
1121 PM AND 1136 PM
0253 PM CHARLESTON WV TORNADO
06/15/98 KANAWHA EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0238 PM AND 0253 PMLocal storm report, Jun 15, 11:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
1100 AM EST MON JUN 15 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TFIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
PREVIOUS REPORT SENT IN ERROR.
TEST....TEST...TEST...TEST.
NO TORNADOES REPORTED OR SITED.
TEST....TEST....TEST
END/Local storm report, Jun 15, 12:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
1100 AM EST MON JUN 15 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
PREVIOUS REPORT SENT IN ERROR.
TEST....TEST...TEST...TEST.
NO TORNADOES REPORTED OR SITED.
TEST....TEST....TEST
END/The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 12:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Putnam | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette | 4 hr |
| Jun 15, 2:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay, Nicholas | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 4:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Roane | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 38 min |
| Jun 15, 6:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Taylor | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 7:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 7:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 7:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 7:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur, Webster | 2 hr |
| Jun 15, 7:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 11:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 5 hr |
| Jun 14, 11:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gallia, Lawrence | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia | 38 min |
| Jun 15, 6:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gallia | 2 hr |
| Jun 14, 10:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Jun 15, 12:06 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Carter | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boyd | 5 hr |
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.