Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 2:57 PM EDT for Mason County, West Virginia. It was in force for 33 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 2, 1998, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mason County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Apple Grove, WV | Large trees were uprooted along Mount Union Ridge, mainly south of County Route 37. One mobile home was destroyed. One man was injured when a large tree hit his van, trapping him inside. The tornado crossed into Putnam County. |
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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 021857 RRA TORCRW WVC053-021930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 257 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHERN MASON COUNTY AT 257 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN GALLIA COUNTY OHIO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL ENTER MASON COUNTY NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF GALLIPOLIS FERRY AROUND 300 PM EDT. << CALL TO ACTION >> IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. .END/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Jun 2, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 67 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.