Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 8, 1998, 10:51 PM EST for Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 54 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, 10:51 PM EST (03:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 1998, 11:45 PM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:07 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 10:54 PM EST | Hail 1 | Hurricane, 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
094 WUUS1 KCRW 090354 RRA SVRCRW WVC079-090445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1051 PM EST THU JAN 8 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...PUTNAM COUNTY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HURRICANE. A WEATHER SERICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN HURRICANE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. << 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, 10:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 48 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, 12:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 54 min |
| Jan 9, 12:22 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 4 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 34 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1998Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.