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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Charleston, WV

May 24, 1998Buchanan County, Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1998, 7:22 AM EDT for Buchanan County, Virginia. It was in force for 53 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, 7:22 AM EDT (11:22 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1998, 8:15 AM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Buchanan County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 225 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1998-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 258 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1998-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 140 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

452 
WUUS1 KCRW 241124 RRA
SVRCRW
VAC027-241215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
722 AM EDT SUN MAY 24 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...NORTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTY
 
AT 718 AM EDT...A THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM
WILL REACH PAW PAW AROUND 730 AM EDT. THE STORM WILL REACH HURLEY AROUND
735 AM EDT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE LARGE HAIL.
 
<< 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.
 
.END/BELK/YOUNG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 3:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBuchanan47 min
May 24, 5:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBuchanan, Dickenson54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 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.