Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1998, 10:35 AM EDT for Doddridge County, Harrison County, West Virginia. It was in force for 50 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, 10:35 AM EDT (14:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 11:25 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Doddridge County, WV, Harrison County, WV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 10:45 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Clarksburg, WV | Trees were down along Route 9 and Gregory Run. |
| Jun 27, 10:55 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Leopold, WV | Trees fell along Route 18 and Carter Camp Road. |
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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 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
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 27, 5:03 AM EDT, 5 hours 32 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, 10:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Tyler | 36 min |
| Jun 27, 10:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 35 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.