Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 4:11 PM EDT for Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1998, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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.
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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 022011 RRA SVRCRW WVC099-022100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 411 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...WAYNE COUNTY AT 408 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WAYNE COUNTY. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE STORM WAS LOCATED EAST OF PRICHARD AND MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM WILL LIKELY MOVE SOUTH OF WAYNE AND AFFECT THE TOWN OF ECHO AROUND 420 PM EDT. << 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 STORxM 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, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 52 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, 4:16 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.