Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 1998, 2:25 AM EDT for Mason County, West Virginia. It was in force for 35 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
- May 20, 1998, 2:25 AM EDT (06:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 1998, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mason County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:26 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
624 WUUS1 KCRW 200628 RRA SVRCRW WVC053-200700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 225 AM EDT WED MAY 20 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...MASON COUNTY AT 225 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WYOMA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD PASS NEAR BEECH TREE AND LEON. << CALL TO ACTION >> IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN ...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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
Special weather statement, May 20, 1:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
OHZ066-067-075-076-084-200600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 100 AM EDT WED MAY 20 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO... THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST OHIO HAVE WEAKENED. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR ATHENS...MORGAN...PERRY...WASHINGTON...AND VINTON COUNTIES. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THESE COUNTIES. .TEND/RPY
Special weather statement, May 20, 1:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
OHZ066-067-075-076-084-200600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 100 AM EDT WED MAY 20 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO... THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST OHIO HAVE WEAKENED. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR ATHENS...MORGAN...PERRY...WASHINGTON...AND VINTON COUNTIES. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THESE COUNTIES. .TEND/RPY
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.