Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1998, 8:06 PM EDT for Washington County, Ohio; Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 49 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 22, 1998, 8:06 PM EDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1998, 8:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Washington County, OH, Wood County, WV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 8:27 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamstown, WV | Several trees were knocked down, some fell across power lines. |
| Jun 22, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Reno, OH | Bleachers and a press box at a car race track were damaged. Across Route 7, a conveyor at a car crusher business was damaged. |
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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 715 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1425 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
020 WUUS1 KCRW 230005 RRA SVRCRW OHC167-WVC107-230055- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 806 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY OH IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO. NORTHERN WOOD COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 855 PM EDT. * AT 805 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF BELPRE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BELPRE AROUND 805 PM EDT. CONSTITUTION AROUND 805 PM EDT. PARKERSBURG AROUND 805 PM EDT. WILLIAMSTOWN AROUND 825 PM EDT. MARIETTA AROUND 825 PM EDT. <<CALL TO ACTION>>DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN 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/SIKORA
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 22, 7:44 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0744 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0743 PM ASHLAND KY WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98 BOYD LARGE BRANCHES BROKEN.
EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0728 PM AND 0743 PMNearby
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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.