Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 1998, 1:15 PM EST for Wyoming County, West Virginia. It was in force for 30 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
- Feb 17, 1998, 1:15 PM EST (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 1998, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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, 1:25 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Herndon Hgts, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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.
213 WUUS1 KCRW 171818 RRA SVRCRW OHC087-WVC109-171845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 115 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 SOUTHEAST OHIO ...LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...WYOMING COUNTY AT 110 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TRACKING THROUGH WYOMING COUNTY AND ALSO MOVING INTO SOUTHERN LAWRENCE OHIO. DAMAGING WINDS WILL LIKELY ACCOMPANY THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. THEY WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTH AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. << CALL TO ACTION >> WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DONT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DO NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 | Fayette, Raleigh | 54 min |
| Feb 17, 12:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 54 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.