Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1998, 9:58 PM EDT for Calhoun County, Wirt County, West Virginia. It was in force for 62 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 28, 1998, 9:58 PM EDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1998, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, WV, Wirt County, WV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 10:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Grantsville, WV | A roof was blown off a house. |
| Jun 28, 10:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 2035 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
796 WUUS1 KCRW 290159 RRA SVRCRW WVC013-021-041-105-290300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 958 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CALHOUN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. GILMER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. LEWIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. WIRT COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT. * AT 957 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF GRANTSVILLE OR IN THE VICINITY OF MUNDAY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ANNAMORIAH AROUND 1000 PM EDT. BIG SPRINGS AROUND 1005 PM EDT. FIVE FORKS AROUND 1005 PM EDT. GRANTSVILLE AROUND 1005 PM EDT. MOUNT ZION AROUND 1005 PM EDT. ALTIZER AROUND 1010 PM EDT. ARNOLDSBURG AROUND 1010 PM EDT. <<CALL TO ACTION>>DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL 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/NMB
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 28, 9:44 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
IN MINERAL WELLS WV, BETWEEN 9:29 PM AND 9:44 PM, THE WIND BROKE LARGE BRANCHES OFF OF TREES. b
Local storm report, Jun 28, 9:45 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0945 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0944 PM MINERAL WELLS WV WIND DAMAGE
06/28/98 WOOD LARGE BRANCHES BROKEN.
EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0929 PM AND 0944 PMLocal storm report, Jun 28, 9:45 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0945 PM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0944 PM MINERAL WELLS WV WIND DAMAGE
06/28/98 WOOD LARGE BRANCHES BROKEN.
EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0929 PM AND 0944 PMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 8:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Ritchie, Tyler | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 9:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Wood | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 9:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Ritchie | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gilmer, Lewis | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 10:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Pleasants, Wirt, Wood | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 10:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Roane | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 10:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 10:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Kanawha | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 10:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 10:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Upshur, Webster | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 11:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Kanawha, Nicholas | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 11:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 11:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 63 min |
| Jun 28, 11:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Webster | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 11:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 62 min |
| Jun 29, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 78 min |
| Jun 29, 12:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 12:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 1:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 1:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Roane | 5 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Putnam | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 2:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 3:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 5 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Putnam | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Putnam | 4 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Roane | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Tyler | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 6:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Roane | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 7:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Putnam | 12 hr |
| Jun 29, 7:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 12 hr |
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.