Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 3:53 PM EDT for Boone County, West Virginia. It was in force for 52 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, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boone County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 021953 RRA TORCRW WVC005-022045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 353 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...NORTHEASTERN BOONE COUNTY AT 352 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN SOUTHWESTERN KANAWHA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF DARTMONT... RUMBLE...ASHFORD...AND RACINE IN BOONE COUNTY BEFORE 445 PM EDT. << CALL TO ACTION >> DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF YOU ARE >CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. .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, 3:15 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, 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
Tornado Warnings in West Virginia, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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.