Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 3:58 AM EDT for Barbour County, Taylor County, West Virginia. It was in force for 62 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
- Jun 19, 1998, 3:58 AM EDT (07:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, WV, Taylor County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:00 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, 4:15 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Galloway, WV | Trees fell across Route 76. |
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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
126 WUUS1 KCRW 190758 RRA SVRCRW WVC001-091-190900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 358 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARBOUR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 500 AM EDT. * AT 354 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAFTON OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRUNTYTOWN MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... THORNTON AROUND 400 AM EDT. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF CAUSING WIND DAMAGE...WITH TREES BLOWN DOWN. <<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/JMV &
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 19, 3:49 AM EDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0349 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0348 AM WEST MILFORD WV .50 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 HARRISON EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0333 AM AND 0348 AM
0420 AM PHILIPPI WV WIND DAMAGE
06/19/98 BARBOUR LARGE BRANCHES BROKEN.
EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0405 AM AND 0420 AMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison, Lewis | 45 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.