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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 19, 1998Monroe County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 9:03 AM EDT for Monroe County, West Virginia. It was in force for 17 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 19, 1998, 9:03 AM EDT (13:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 1998, 9:20 AM EDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Monroe County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 19, 9:15 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Lindside, 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 nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 1109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1024 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 19, 2:22 AM EDT, 6 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:22 AM EDT, 6 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 6:57 AM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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059-WVZ042>045-191800-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
657 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998

...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING IN
SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA...

A WEAKENING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING INTO A MODERATELY
UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING. THERE
WILL BE SCATTERED STRONG STORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND
HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LEVELS.
HOWEVER...THESE STORMS WILL ALSO CONTINUE TO WEAKEN DURING THE
MORNING AND THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE SHORT LIVED.

SPOTTER ACTIVITATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED DUE TO THE ISOLATED NATURE
OF THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION
FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

JACKSON

The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 10:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll	50 min
Jun 19, 9:28 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Monroe	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.