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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Charleston, WV

May 24, 1998Carter County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1998, 3:46 PM EDT for Carter County, Kentucky. It was in force for 14 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: May 24, 1998, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1998, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Carter County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 3:55 PM EDT	Hail 1	Boone Furnace, KY

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 24, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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

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

885 
WUUS1 KCRW 241947 RRA
SVRCRW
KYC043-242000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
346 PM EDT SUN MAY 24 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN EAST KENTUCKY
 
   ...NORTHERN CARTER COUNTY
 
AT 3:45 PM CHARLESTON DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
EASTERN LEWIS COUNTY. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO TRACK ALONG STATE
ROUTE 694 TOWARDS BOONE FURNACE IN NORTHERN CARTER COUNTY BY 3:50 PM
EDT.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM AND IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS.
 
 
<< 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
May 24, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Greenup	51 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
May 24, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boyd	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1998 Every 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.