Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 267, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1998, 6:39 PM EDT for Barbour County, Harrison County, Taylor County, West Virginia. It was in force for 46 min. 4 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
- Sep 7, 1998, 6:39 PM EDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1998, 7:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Taylor County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 6:42 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lumberport, WV | |
| Sep 7, 6:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Flemington, WV | Numerous large trees were uprooted and large branches were snapped off. Minor damage occurred to siding on a few dwellings,. One Simpson resident commented about the fallen trees by saying, "Those trees have been here forever. They were big when I was a chi |
| Sep 7, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Arden, WV | |
| Sep 7, 7:03 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Philippi, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1483 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 072239 RRA SVRCRW WVC001-033-091-072325- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 639 PM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BARBOUR COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. EASTERN HARRISON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. SOUTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 725 PM EDT. * AT 636 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF PHILIPPI MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE... NESTORVILLE. KASSON. MEADOWVILLE. BELINGTON. JUNIOR. DAMAGING WINDS A ND 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/JMV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 5:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Harrison | 32 min |
| Sep 7, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason, Putnam | 33 min |
| Sep 7, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 32 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.