Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 1998, 12:51 PM EST for Fayette County, Raleigh County, West Virginia. It was in force for 54 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
- Feb 17, 1998, 12:51 PM EST (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 1998, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, WV, Raleigh County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 1:05 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Coal City, WV | |
| Feb 17, 1:40 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Kincaid, 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 728 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 863 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
049 WUUS1 KCRW 171752 RRA SVRCRW KYC019-089-WVC019-081-099-171845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1251 PM EST TUE FEB 17 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST KENTUCKY ...BOYD COUNTY...GREENUP COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...FAYETTE COUNTY...RALEIGH COUNTY IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...WAYNE COUNTY AT 1245 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN ENDS OF THESE COUNTIES. THEY WILL MOVE RAPIDLY NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. DAMAGING WINDS WILL LIKELY ACCOMPANY THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. << CALL TO ACTION >> IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL ...HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 12:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 54 min |
| Feb 17, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 30 min |
| Feb 17, 2:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.