Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 1998, 4:48 PM EDT for Summers County, West Virginia. It was in force for 62 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, 4:48 PM EDT (20:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1998, 5:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Summers County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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, 5:00 PM EDT | Hail 1.15 | Hinton, 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 KROA 022048 RRA TORRNK WVC089-022150- BULLETIN--EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 448 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SUMMERS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 550 PM EDT. * AT 447 PM EDT... BLACKSBURG DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 30 MILES WEST OF LEWISBURG OR 4 MILES NORTH OF JUMPING BRANCH MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF... JUMPING BRANCH AROUND 448 PM EDT.. HINTON AROUND 450 PM EDT.. BUCK AROUND 455 PM EDT.. BALLENGEE AROUND 500 PM EDT.. INDIAN MILLS AROUND 500 PM EDT.. << CALL TO ACTION >> IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SAFETY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WBITH YOUR HANDS. .END/DD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Monroe | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.