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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Charleston, WV

May 24, 1998Jackson County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1998, 11:46 AM EDT for Jackson County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 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, 11:46 AM EDT (15:46 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1998, 12:30 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:50 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 112 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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

777 
WUUS1 KCRW 241547 RRA
SVRCRW
OHC079-241630-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1146 AM EDT SUN MAY 24 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING
INTO NORTH WEST JACKSON COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL TRACK ALONG ROUTE 35 AT
35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS IN THE VICINITY OF JACKSON AND WELLSTON
AROUND NOON.
 
<< 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.
 
 
HATFIELD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 11:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia36 min
May 24, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence53 min
May 24, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson32 min
May 24, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence41 min
May 24, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWashington50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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.