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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Charleston, WV

June 2, 1998Gallia County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 2:45 PM EDT for Gallia County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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, 2:45 PM EDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1998, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Gallia County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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, 2:45 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Gallipolis, OH
Jun 2, 2:50 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Gallipolis, OH	Fallen trees caused minor damage to about 6 buildings in the region where Route 141 and 7 enters the city from the southwest.

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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 021845 RRA
TORCRW
OHC053-021915-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
245 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...GALLIA COUNTY
 
AT 244 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR PATRIOT IN
GALLIA COUNTY OHIO. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH.
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...
THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE
OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER
IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	28 min
Jun 2, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia	45 min
Jun 2, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan	44 min
Jun 2, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.