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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Charleston, WV

August 25, 1998Jackson County, Lawrence County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1998, 7:44 PM EDT for Jackson County, Lawrence County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 1998, 8:35 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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, 7:48 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wellston, 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, 4:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 252344 RRA
SVRCRW
OHC079-087-260035-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
744 PM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY OHIO.
  LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO.

* UNTIL 835 PM EDT.

* AT 743 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES WEST OF OAK HILL MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE...
   OAK HILL.
   BLACKFORK.
   PINE GROVE.
   PEDRO.
   IRONTON.

GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!  A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT.  SEVERFE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

PLEASE REPORT ANY TORNADOES...FUNNEL CLOUDS...HAIL OR STRONG WINDS
BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 877-633-6772.

.END/TRM

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, Aug 25, 7:09 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
709 PM EDT TUE AUG 25 1998

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

0519 PM    NEW LEXINGTON             OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/25/98   PERRY                          THE WARNING POINT REPORTED
                                          SOME TREES KNOCKED DOWN
                                          THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY

0600 PM    MALTA                     OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/25/98   MORGAN                         TREES KNOCKED DOWN FROM
                                          MALTA TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF
                                          MCCONNELSVILLE

0620 PM    CREOLA                    OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/25/98   VINTON                         SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          TREES KNOCKED DOWN ONTO
                                          ROADWAYS

0635 PM    ATHENS                    OH   WIND DAMAGE
08/25/98   ATHENS                         SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED
                                          TREES DOWN 5 MILES SOUTH
                                          AND EAST OF ATHENS

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, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan	46 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

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.