Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Charleston, WV

May 24, 1998Lawrence County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1998, 5:22 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Ohio. It was in force for 53 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, 5:22 PM EDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1998, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Lawrence County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 5:48 PM EDT	Hail 1.5	Pedro, OH

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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 143 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.

522 
WUUS1 KCRW 242124 RRA
SVRCRW
OHC087-242215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
522 PM EDT SUN MAY 24 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
AT 520 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CROSSING THE OHIO RIVER...ENTERING SOUTHWEST LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO. THIS
STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS STORM WILL REACH IRONTON BY 535 PM.
 
 
 
 
<< 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, 11:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia	36 min
May 24, 11:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	44 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, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.