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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Charleston, WV

June 27, 1998Tyler County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1998, 10:09 AM EDT for Tyler 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 27, 1998, 10:09 AM EDT (14:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1998, 10:45 AM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Tyler County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 27, 10:25 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Sistersville, WV	Trees were down along Route 2. Minor damage occurred to a few dwellings.

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 12:00Z, 2.2 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.

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: 669 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 4.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

268 
WUUS1 KCRW 271410 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC095-271445-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1009 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TYLER COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA.

* UNTIL 1045 AM EDT.

* AT 1008 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIDDLEBOURNE OR 6
  MILES NORTHWEST OF PADEN CITY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   PADEN CITY           AROUND 1015 AM EDT.
   FRIENDLY             AROUND 1015 AM EDT.
   MIDDLEBOURNE         AROUND 1020 AM EDT.
   LIMA                 AROUND 1030 AM EDT.
   JOSEPHS MILLS        AROUND 1030 AM 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/PCZ

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 27, 4:12 AM EDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
412 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998

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

1230 AM    CAIRO                     WV   FLOODING
06/27/98   RITCHIE                        NEAR CAIRO. OUTBUILDING
                                          WASHED AWAY. SOME TRAILERS
                                          WASHED DOWN BEAR OR BUKY
                                          RUNS. SOME HOMES MOVED OFF
                                          THEIR FOUNDATIONS.
                                          BETWEEN 1230 AND 1 AM

Local storm report, Jun 27, 5:03 AM EDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
503 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998

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

1125 PM    BERGOO                    WV   WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98   WEBSTER                        TREES DOWN IN BERGOO AND
                                          GRASSY CREEK.

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, 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, 10:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants	35 min
Jun 27, 10:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison	50 min

Nearby

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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.