Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1998, 6:34 PM EDT for Cabell County, Lincoln County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 2, 1998, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1998, 7:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabell County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Melissa, WV | Nickel size hail fell near the Beech Fork State Park. |
| Jul 2, 6:46 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Lavalette, 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1252 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
953 WUUS1 KCRW 022233 RRA SVRCRW WVC011-043-099-022310- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 634 PM EDT THU JUL 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CABELL COUNTY IN WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. EXTREME EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 710 PM EDT. * AT 633 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAYNE OR IN THE VICINITY OF SALT ROCK MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WAYNE AROUND 640 PM EDT. WEST HAMLIN AROUND 640 PM EDT. EAST LYNN AROUND 655 PM EDT. BRANCHLAND AROUND 655 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/HTK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton | 3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.