Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 3:32 PM EDT for Buchanan County, Virginia. It was in force for 13 min. 1 report 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 3, 1998, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1998, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buchanan County, VA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:40 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Jewell Vly, VA |
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 3, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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
- 1727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
665 WUUS1 KCRW 031933 RRA SVRCRW VAC027-031945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 332 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ...EASTERN BUCHANAN COUNTY AT 332 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CHARLESTON INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN BUCHANAN COUNTY IN THE PILGRIMS KNOB AND WHITEWOOD VICINITIES. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 35 MPH. << 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Dickenson | 41 min |
Nearby
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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.