Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 6:04 PM EDT for Pleasants County, West Virginia. It was in force for 36 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 26, 1998, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 6:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pleasants County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:07 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
388 WUUS1 KCRW 262205 RRA SVRCRW WVC073-262240- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 604 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PLEASANTS COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 640 PM EDT. * AT 603 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF SAINT MARYS OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF HEBRON MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS. <<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/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 26, 4:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
440 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0310 PM THORNTON WV WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98 TAYLOR SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
ALONG U S RT 50 NEAR
THORNTON.
0315 PM WEST UNION WV WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98 DODDRIDGE SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN 3
MILES NW WEST UNION ALONG
WV RT 18.
0315 PM PINE BLUFF WV WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98 HARRISON SEVERAL TREES BLOWN DOWN
IN PEORA-PINE BLUFF AREA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison | 46 min |
| 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, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Tyler | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1998Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.