Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1998, 3:43 AM EDT for Buchanan County, Virginia; McDowell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 47 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 24, 1998, 3:43 AM EDT (07:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1998, 4:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 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 07:55 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 00:00Z, 7.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
316 WUUS1 KCRW 240744 RRA SVRCRW VAC027-WVC047-240830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 343 AM EDT SUN MAY 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ...BUCHANAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...MCDOWELL COUNTY AT 341 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WHITEWOOD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY REACH WAR WEST VIRGINIA AROUND 400 AM EDT. << CALL TO ACTION >> THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A S PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. .END/BELK/YOUNG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 54 min |
| May 24, 7:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 53 min |
| May 24, 7:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 41 min |
| May 24, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 44 min |
| May 24, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 52 min |
| May 24, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 31 min |
| May 24, 5:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 28 min |
| May 24, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Putnam | 32 min |
| May 24, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 68 min |
| May 24, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 50 min |
| May 24, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 42 min |
| May 24, 6:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 43 min |
| May 24, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 43 min |
| May 24, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 48 min |
| May 24, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 39 min |
| May 24, 7:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln | 4 hr |
| May 24, 7:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 67 min |
| May 24, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 63 min |
| May 24, 7:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Taylor | 52 min |
| May 24, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1998Severe 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.