Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 271, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1998, 2:18 AM EDT for Dickenson County, Virginia. It was in force for 32 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
- Sep 8, 1998, 2:18 AM EDT (06:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1998, 2:50 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickenson County, VA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2:30 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, VA | County officials reported scattered locations of tree damage. |
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2284 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 080618 RRA SVRCRW VAC051-080650- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 218 AM EDT TUE SEP 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN DICKENSON COUNTY VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 250 AM EDT. * AT 216 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF CLINTWOOD MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE... CLINTWOOD. HAYSI. CLINCHCO. FREMONT. MCCLURE. BIRCHLEAF. TRAMMEL. 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/GRAF
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, Sep 7, 8:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
825 PM EDT MON SEP 07 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0618 PM CLARKSBURG BENEDUM ARPT WV TORNADO
09/07/98 HARRISON PILOT REPORTED TORNADO 16
MILES WEST OF AIRPORT.
0620 PM WALLACE WV WIND DAMAGE
09/07/98 HARRISON HARRISON COUNTY WARNING
POINT REPORTED NUMEROUS
TREES DOWN FROM WALLACE,
FLEMING AND LUMBERPORT.
0645 PM LUMBERPORT WV WIND DAMAGE
09/07/98 HARRISON NUMEROUS TREES REPORTED
DOWN BY THE HARRISON
WARNING POINT.
0703 PM PHILIPPI WV WIND DAMAGE
09/07/98 BARBOUR NUMEROUS TREES REPORTED
DOWN THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY
BY THE COUNTY WARNING
POINT.Local storm report, Sep 7, 8:42 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
842 PM EDT MON SEP 07 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0650 PM FLEMINGTON WV WIND DAMAGE
09/07/98 TAYLOR TREES DOWN ALONG ROUTE 50.
0715 PM WV WIND DAMAGE
09/07/98 PUTNAM NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ALONG
18 MILE CREEK, RT 35 NEAR
EXTRA.
0750 PM MARMET WV WIND DAMAGE
09/07/98 KANAWHA NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN AT KANAWHA CITY
REPORTED BY COUNTY WARNING
POINT.Local storm report, Sep 7, 9:18 PM EDT, 5 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
918 PM EDT MON SEP 07 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0803 PM WV WIND DAMAGE
09/07/98 NICHOLAS NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS
COUNTY 803-830 PMSpecial weather statement, Sep 7, 10:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-047-080400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1003 PM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THERE ARE SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE REGION BUT THEY SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. END/ELW
Special weather statement, Sep 7, 10:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-047-080400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1003 PM EDT MON SEP 7 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THERE ARE SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE REGION BUT THEY SHOULD REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. END/ELW
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.