Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Charleston, WV

June 22, 1998Dickenson County, Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1998, 8:29 PM EDT for Dickenson County, Virginia. It was in force for 31 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 22, 1998, 8:29 PM EDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1998, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Dickenson County, VA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 22, 8:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, VA	Trees fell on power lines and across roads.

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
Jun 22, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 248 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1385 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

204 
WUUS1 KCRW 230028 RRA
SVRCRW
VAC051-230100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
829 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DICKENSON COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA.

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT.

* AT 826 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLINTWOOD OR IN THE
  VICINITY OF CLINCHCO MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   NORA                 AROUND 835 PM EDT.
   BIRCHLEAF            AROUND 835 PM EDT.
   TRAMMEL              AROUND 850 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, 45 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 PM

Local storm report, Jun 22, 8:18 PM EDT, 11 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 PM

Local storm report, Jun 22, 8:19 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

IN ASHLAND                   KY, BETWEEN  7:28 PM AND  7:43 PM,
THE WIND BROKE LARGE BRANCHES OFF OF TREES.
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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.