Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 3:40 AM EDT for Harrison County, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was in force for 45 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 19, 1998, 3:40 AM EDT (07:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 4:25 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:40 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 19, 3:45 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Reynoldsville, WV | |
| Jun 19, 3:55 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Weston, WV | Trees were down at the intersection of Route 19 and Interstate 79. |
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Taylor | 62 min |
| Jun 19, 4:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Lewis, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Taylor | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 7:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 9:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Lewis | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 9:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 9:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 10:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Webster | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 11:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 11:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Lewis, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 11:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 1:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 1:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton | 19 hr |
| Jun 19, 1:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Tyler | 12 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.