Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 6:39 AM EDT for Fayette County, Nicholas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1998, 6:39 AM EDT (10:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 7:40 AM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, WV, Nicholas County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:41 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 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
- 1007 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 191039 RRA SVRCRW WVC019-067-191140- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 639 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. WESTERN NICHOLAS COUNTY IN CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 740 AM EDT. * AT 637 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES WEST OF SUMMERSVILLE OR 8 MILES WEST OF LOCKWOOD MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... GILBOA AROUND 645 AM EDT. SUMMERSVILLE AROUND 650 AM EDT. <<CALL TO ACTION>>THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PLEASE REPORT ANY HAIL OR STRONG WINDS BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 877-633-6772. .END/MJS
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, 2 hours 50 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 AMLocal storm report, Jun 19, 4:25 AM EDT, 2 hours 14 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, 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.