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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV

January 8, 1998Lawrence County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1998, 9:50 PM EST for Lawrence County, Ohio. It was in force for 40 min. 2 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: Jan 8, 1998, 9:50 PM EST (02:50 UTC)
Expired: Jan 8, 1998, 10:30 PM EST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Lawrence County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 8, 10:00 PM EST	Hail 1	South Pt, OH
Jan 8, 10:05 PM EST	Hail 1	Willow Wood, 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

789 
WUUS1 KCRW 090252 RRA
SVRCRW
OHC087-090330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
950 PM EST THU JAN 8 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
AT 9:50 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
WESTERN BOYD COUNTY KENTUCKY...MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35
MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL PUSH INTO SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY
OHIO SHORTLY. IT WILL EFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF IRONTON...COAL GROVE...
KITTS HILL AND CHERRYVILLE.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND.
 
 
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD
MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DONT USE
TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE
STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS
 
ZINN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 8, 10:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia	48 min
Jan 8, 11:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs	31 min
Jan 9, 12:06 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	54 min
Jan 9, 12:22 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Washington	4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.