Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1998, 5:17 PM EDT for Lincoln County, West Virginia. It was in force for 28 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
- May 24, 1998, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1998, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 638 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
486 WFUS1 KCRW 242118 RRA TORCRW WVC043-242145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 517 PM EDT SUN MAY 24 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 515 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ALONG THE CABELL AND LINCOLN COUNTY LINE. THIS STORM WAS TRACKING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PORTERSVILLE AND BOWLES ARE IN THE TRACK OF THIS STORM. << CALL TO ACTION >> THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 47 min |
| May 24, 7:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 41 min |
| May 24, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 44 min |
| May 24, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 52 min |
| May 24, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 31 min |
| May 24, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Putnam | 32 min |
| May 24, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 68 min |
| May 24, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 50 min |
| May 24, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 42 min |
| May 24, 6:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 43 min |
| May 24, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 43 min |
| May 24, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 48 min |
| May 24, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 39 min |
| May 24, 7:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln | 4 hr |
| May 24, 7:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 67 min |
| May 24, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 63 min |
| May 24, 7:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Taylor | 52 min |
| May 24, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.