Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 2:30 PM EDT for Gallia County, Ohio. It was in force for 45 min. 4 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
- Jun 2, 1998, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 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 18:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Rio Grande, OH | |
| Jun 2, 2:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Rio Grande, OH | |
| Jun 2, 2:45 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Gallipolis, OH | |
| Jun 2, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Gallipolis, OH | Fallen trees caused minor damage to about 6 buildings in the region where Route 141 and 7 enters the city from the southwest. |
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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 021830 RRA SVRCRW OHC053-021915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 230 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...GALLIA COUNTY AT 228 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN JACKSON COUNTY OHIO...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. VINTON...THURMAN... AND RIO GRANDE ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. << 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 DON'T 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 28 min |
| Jun 2, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Gallia | 30 min |
| Jun 2, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Washington | 47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.