Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 258, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT for Morgan County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 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
- Aug 25, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1998, 5:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morgan County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Malta, OH |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 25, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 369 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -244 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 252104 RRA SVRCRW OHC115-252150- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 504 PM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY OHIO * UNTIL 550 PM EDT * AT 501 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF MCCONNELSVILLE OR 7 MILES NORTH OF REINERSVILLE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE... REINERSVILLE. HACKNEY. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO HWATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT! PLEASE REPORT ANY TORNADOES...HAIL OR STRONG WINDS BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 877-633-6772. .END/JMV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 48 min |
| Aug 25, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 35 min |
| Aug 25, 5:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Morgan | 34 min |
| Aug 25, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Washington | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Vinton | 43 min |
| Aug 25, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Meigs | 49 min |
| Aug 25, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens | 20 min |
| Aug 25, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Lawrence | 51 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.