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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 276, NWS Charleston, WV

September 29, 1998Buchanan County, Virginia; McDowell County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1998, 5:38 PM EDT for Buchanan County, Virginia; McDowell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 29, 1998, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
Expired: Sep 29, 1998, 6:10 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Buchanan County, VA, McDowell County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 292137 RRA
SVRCRW
VAC027-WVC047-292210-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
538 PM EDT TUE SEP 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BUCHANAN COUNTY VIRGINIA.
  WESTERN MCDOWELL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA.

* UNTIL 610 PM EDT.

* AT 537 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRUNDY OR 7 MILES WEST
  OF BRADSHAW MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE...
   BRADSHAW.
   BEARTOWN.

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/NMB/JMV

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 29, 5:09 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
509 PM EDT TUE SEP 29 1998

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

0436 PM    HAYSI                     VA   WIND DAMAGE
09/29/98   DICKENSON                      TREES DOWN IN HAYSI AND
                                          TARPON AREAS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 29, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Buchanan, Dickenson	32 min
Sep 29, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Buchanan	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1998 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1998 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.