Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1998, 12:57 AM EDT for Calhoun County, Gilmer County, West Virginia. It was in force for 48 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 27, 1998, 12:57 AM EDT (04:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 1:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, WV, Gilmer County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:58 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 27, 1:25 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Grantsville, WV | Trees were down along Routes 16 and 5. |
| Jun 27, 1:30 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenville, 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 186 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, 7:35 PM EDT, 5 hours 22 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, 2 hours 7 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 PMLocal storm report, Jun 27, 12:43 AM EDT, 14 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 PMLocal storm report, Jun 27, 12:44 AM EDT, 13 minutes before
aT_ENGCRWLSRNWR98062703039806270303 110AD WVC097c9806270333 IN BUCKHANNON WV, BETWEEN 10:47 PM AND 11:02 PM, PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED. b aT_ENGCRWLSRNWR98062703259806270325 111AD OHC167c9806270455 IN LOWER SALEM OH, BETWEEN 11:08 PM AND 11:23 PM, FLOODING WAS REPORTED. THIS INCLUDED WATER OVER THE ROAD OR IN BUILDINGS. b
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, 10:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 36 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, 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
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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.