Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 6:20 PM EDT for Tyler County, West Virginia. It was in force for 35 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, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 6:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tyler County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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.
534 WUUS1 KCRW 262221 RRA SVRCRW WVC095-262255- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 620 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED THE * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TYLER COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 655 PM EDT. * AT 619 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE VICINITY OF MIDDLEBOURNE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MIDDLEBOURNE NOW. JOSEPHS MILLS AROUND 640 PM EDT. <<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 40 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.Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:14 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0614 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0612 PM NEW MATAMORAS OH 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/26/98 WASHINGTON EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0557 PM AND 0612 PMThe 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, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 36 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.