Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Charleston, WV

June 26, 1998Braxton County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 10:44 PM EDT for Braxton County, West Virginia. It was in force for 36 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 26, 1998, 10:44 PM EDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1998, 11:20 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Braxton County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 26, 11:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Chapel, 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 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 1124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

991 
WUUS1 KCRW 270245 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC007-270320-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1044 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BRAXTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA.

* UNTIL 1120 PM EDT.

* AT 1044 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTH OF SUTTON OR 2 MILES NORTH OF
  COPEN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   COPEN                AROUND 1045 PM EDT.
   BURNSVILLE           AROUND 1050 PM EDT.
   EXCHANGE             AROUND 1055 PM EDT.
   GEM                  AROUND 1055 PM EDT.
   CHAPEL               AROUND 1055 PM EDT.
   WILSIE               AROUND 1055 PM EDT.
   FLATWOODS            AROUND 1105 PM EDT.
   SUTTON               AROUND 1110 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 26, 6:14 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 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 PM

Local storm report, Jun 26, 6:33 PM EDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0633 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....

0616 PM    FRIENDLY                  WV   1.50 INCH HAIL
06/26/98   TYLER                          EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0601 PM  AND  0616 PM

Local storm report, Jun 26, 7:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
735 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0712 PM    MINERAL                   OH   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   ATHENS                         TREES DOWN. ONE TREE BLOWN
                                          ACROSS STATE RTE 56 NORTH
                                          OF MINERAL.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 9:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Harrison	63 min
Jun 26, 9:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Tyler	47 min
Jun 26, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants	36 min
Jun 26, 10:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Ritchie	34 min
Jun 26, 10:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	35 min
Jun 26, 10:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gilmer, Lewis	34 min
Jun 26, 10:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Upshur	32 min
Jun 26, 10:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Randolph	51 min
Jun 26, 11:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Webster	33 min
Jun 26, 11:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	32 min
Jun 26, 11:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie	35 min
Jun 27, 12:17 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Ritchie	3 hr
Jun 27, 12:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer	48 min
Jun 27, 1:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton	37 min
Jun 27, 1:32 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gilmer	3 hr
Jun 27, 10:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Tyler	36 min
Jun 27, 10:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants	35 min
Jun 27, 10:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison	50 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.