Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 4:53 PM EDT for Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was in force for 67 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, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 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 20:42 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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.
- 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.
664 WUUS1 KCRW 022053 RRA SVRCRW WVC039-022200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 453 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHWESTERN AND WEST CENTRAL KANAWHA COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS DEVELOPING IN WESTERN KANAWHA COUNTY AND WILL MOVE EAST INTO CENTRAL KANAWHA COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND HIGH WINDS. << CALL TO ACTION >> A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER, SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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, 31 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, 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, 4:11 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 |
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.