Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Charleston, WV

January 8, 1998Gallia County, Ohio; Mason County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1998, 10:27 PM EST for Gallia County, Ohio; Mason County, West Virginia. It was in force for 48 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: Jan 8, 1998, 10:27 PM EST (03:27 UTC)
Expired: Jan 8, 1998, 11:15 PM EST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gallia County, OH, Mason County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 8, 10:41 PM EST	Hail 1	Southside, 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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

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The text

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

993 
WUUS1 KCRW 090329 RRA
SVRCRW
OHC053-WVC053-090415-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1027 PM EST THU JAN 8 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...GALLIA COUNTY
 
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...MASON COUNTY
 
AT 1025 PM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE TRACKING NORTHWARD THROUGH
GALLIA AND MASON COUNTIES. LARGE HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE PASSAGE
OF THESE STORMS.
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND
IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND
VERY HEAVY RAIN.FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS
QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 8, 9:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	40 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
Jan 8, 10:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Putnam	54 min
Jan 8, 10:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	48 min
Jan 8, 11:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	53 min
Jan 8, 11:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RLX	Wood	19 min
Jan 9, 1:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas	34 min

Nearby

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