Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Charleston, WV

January 9, 1998Pleasants County, West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 9, 1998, 12:06 AM EST for Pleasants County, West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 min. 2 reports 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: Jan 9, 1998, 12:06 AM EST (05:06 UTC)
Expired: Jan 9, 1998, 1:00 AM EST
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Washington County, OH, Pleasants County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:08 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
Jan 9, 12:15 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Newport, OH	Several trees were blown down.
Jan 9, 12:15 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Bellmont, WV	Trees and telephone poles were knocked down. A tree limb crashed through a house in Eureka. A large pine tree fell onto the middle school along Route 2.

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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

414 
WUUS1 KCRW 090508 RRA
SVRCRW
OHC167-WVC073-090600-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1206 AM EST FRI JAN 9 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...PLEASANTS COUNTY
 
AT MIDNIGHT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS
ALONG THE WOOD...PLEASANTS COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM WAS LIFTING NORTH
NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. IT WILL TRACK ALONG THE OHIO
RIVER...AFFECTING EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY.
 
 
<< 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
Jan 8, 10:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mason	48 min
Jan 8, 10:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Putnam	54 min
Jan 8, 10:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	48 min
Jan 8, 11:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	53 min
Jan 8, 11:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RLX	Wood	19 min
Jan 9, 12:22 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wood	4 hr
Jan 9, 1:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas	34 min
Jan 8, 9:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	40 min
Jan 8, 11:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1998 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.