Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 4:32 PM EDT for Buchanan County, Virginia. It was in force for 28 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, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buchanan County, VA
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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
553 WUUS1 KCRW 022031 RRA SVRCRW VAC027-022100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 432 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 SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTY AT 430 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM ENTERING SOUTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. << 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
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 2, 4:22 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
422 PM EDT TUE JUN 02 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0217 PM JACKSON OH .88 INCH HAIL
06/02/98 JACKSON NEAR THE TOWN OF REMPEL
DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL
0230 PM RIO GRANDE OH 1 INCH HAIL
06/02/98 GALLIA QUARTER SIZE HAIL
STREACHING FROM RIO GRANDE
TO GALLIPOLIS OHIO.
0303 PM APPLE GROVE WV TORNADO
06/02/98 MASON 911 CENTER REPORT TORNADO
NEAR APPLE GROVE MOVING
EAST
0328 PM CROSS LANES WV 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/98 KANAWHA QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL ON KANAWHA PUTNAM
COUNTY LINE WEST OF CROSS
LANES.
0334 PM BUFFALO WV WIND DAMAGE
06/02/98 PUTNAM WIND DAMAGE NEAR TOYOTA
PLANT IN PUTNAM COUNTY.
0335 PM BUFFALO WV TORNADO
06/02/98 PUTNAM TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR
TOWN OF BUFFALO ON A FARM.
0338 PM POCA WV .5 INCH HAIL
06/02/98 PUTNAM MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN TOWN
OF POCA WV
0345 PM CROSS LANES WV TORNADO
06/02/98 KANAWHA TORADO REPORTED BY
PARAMEDICS IN CROSS LANES
AND SAINT ALBANS
0350 PM RUTH WV 60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/02/98 KANAWHA ESTIMATED 60 MPH WINDS AT
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE
0352 PM CHARLESTON WV .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/98 KANAWHA DIME SIZE HAIL FALLING IN
DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON
0357 PM CHARLESTON WV 1.5 INCH HAIL
06/02/98 KANAWHA INCH TO INCH AND ONE HALF
HAIL COVERING GROUND IN
KANAWHA CITY REPORTED BY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
PERSONNEL.
0400 PM CHARLESTON WV 2 INCH HAIL
06/02/98 KANAWHA TWO INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
FAMILY MEMBER IN EAST END
OF CHARLESTON NEAR RT 60
AND WEST VIRGINIA TURNPIKEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 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.