Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 3:15 PM EDT for Putnam County, West Virginia. 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, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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, 3:16 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Pliny, WV | The tornado crossed the Mason/Putnam County line about 2 miles west of Pliny and uprooted large trees mainly south of County Route 9. |
| Jun 2, 3:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Buffalo, WV |
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 2, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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 021915 RRA TORCRW WVC079-021945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 315 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...PUTNAM COUNTY AT 313 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO APPROACHING PUTNAM CONTY. THE TORNADO IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM WILL LIKELY AFFECT PLINY AND BUFFALO AROUND 320 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/BELK
The 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, 3:23 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.