Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 10:54 PM EDT for Barbour County, Randolph County, West Virginia. It was in force for 51 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, 10:54 PM EDT (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, WV, Randolph County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 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, 11:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, WV | |
| Jun 26, 11:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Elkins, 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 40 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 PMLocal storm report, Jun 26, 6:33 PM EDT, 4 hours 21 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 PMLocal storm report, Jun 26, 7:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 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.Local storm report, Jun 26, 10:50 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
1050 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....
1102 PM BUCKHANNON WV PEA SIZE HAIL
06/26/98 UPSHUR EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
1047 PM AND 1102 PM
1123 PM LOWER SALEM OH FLOODING
06/26/98 WASHINGTON STREAMS OVER ROADS OR
IN BUILDINGS.
EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
1108 PM AND 1123 PMThe 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, 10:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 36 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 |
| Jun 26, 11:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 12:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 12:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 4:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Morgan | 4 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Washington | 31 min |
| Jun 27, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan | 48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.