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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Charleston, WV

June 2, 1998Kanawha County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 3:23 PM EDT for Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was in force for 52 min. 8 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, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1998, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Kanawha County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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, 3:28 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Cross Lanes, WV
Jun 2, 3:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Ruth, WV
Jun 2, 3:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Charleston, WV
Jun 2, 3:56 PM EDT	Hail 1.5	(Crw) Yeager Arpt, WV
Jun 2, 3:57 PM EDT	Hail 1.5	Charleston, WV
Jun 2, 3:58 PM EDT	Hail 2	Charleston, WV
Jun 2, 3:58 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Charleston, WV	The tornado moved up Chappell Hollow, in the Kanawha City section of Charleston. The path was along the east facing slope of the hollow, and narrowly missed several homes. A few homes were still damaged by fallen trees. The estimated winds were between 90 a
Jun 2, 4:19 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Leewood, WV

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
Jun 2, 3:10 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1298 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 208 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 274 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 021923 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC039-022015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
323 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN KANAWHA COUNTY
 
AT 321 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING KANAWHA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO
THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. AREAS WEST AND SOUTH OF CHARLESTON ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
<< 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.
 
.END/BELK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 2:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Mason	33 min
Jun 2, 3:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Putnam	30 min
Jun 2, 3:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Kanawha	38 min
Jun 2, 3:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Boone	52 min
Jun 2, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	49 min
Jun 2, 4:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Kanawha	14 min
Jun 2, 4:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Fayette, Raleigh	41 min
Jun 2, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 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.