Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Charleston, WV

June 26, 1998Doddridge County, Harrison County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 2:39 PM EDT for Doddridge County, Harrison County, West Virginia. It was in force for 46 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 26, 1998, 2:39 PM EDT (18:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1998, 3:25 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Doddridge County, WV, Harrison County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 26, 3:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	West Union, WV	Fallen trees blocked Route 18.
Jun 26, 3:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluff, WV

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 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 3262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 666 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.4
Supercell composite: 15.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

030 
WUUS1 KCRW 261840 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC017-033-261925-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
239 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN DODDRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA.
  NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA.

* UNTIL 325 PM EDT.

* AT 236 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLARKSBURG OR 5 MILES
  NORTH OF CENTER POINT MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   CENTER POINT         AROUND 240 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/PCZ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Taylor	33 min
Jun 26, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Tyler	31 min
Jun 26, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants	36 min
Jun 26, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Tyler	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.