Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 47
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 17, 1998, 1:00 PM EST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 1998, 1:00 PM EST (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 1998, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Bland County, VA, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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.
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 30 min |
| Feb 17, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 30 min |
| Feb 17, 1:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Scioto | 30 min |
| Feb 17, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson | 45 min |
| Feb 17, 2:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Meigs, Vinton | 41 min |
| Feb 17, 2:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 41 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 489 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 12:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | City of Danville | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 1998Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.