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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Charleston, WV

May 24, 1998Gallia County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1998, 11:09 AM EDT for Gallia County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 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, 11:09 AM EDT (15:09 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1998, 11:45 AM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Gallia County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 3:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	47 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
May 24, 11:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	44 min
May 24, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	53 min
May 24, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	32 min
May 24, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	41 min
May 24, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Greenup	51 min
May 24, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Carter	14 min
May 24, 4:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Greenup	30 min
May 24, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boyd	50 min
May 24, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Greenup	52 min
May 24, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Greenup	33 min

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.