Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 593

June 16, 199828 counties in North Carolina; 34 counties in Virginia; 10 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 16, 1998, 2:15 PM EDT for 28 counties in North Carolina; 34 counties in Virginia; 10 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 1998, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 72 counties

Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Augusta County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, City of Staunton, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Henry County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Fayette County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

Warnings issued inside it

45 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 2:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll	44 min
Jun 16, 2:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell	47 min
Jun 16, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	33 min
Jun 16, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin	62 min
Jun 16, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas	50 min
Jun 16, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry	52 min
Jun 16, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wyoming	52 min
Jun 16, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	64 min
Jun 16, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	64 min
Jun 16, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	65 min
Jun 16, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Greenbrier	63 min
Jun 16, 3:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Franklin	33 min
Jun 16, 3:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Greenbrier	50 min
Jun 16, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Patrick	51 min
Jun 16, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry	49 min
Jun 16, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford	66 min
Jun 16, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie	34 min
Jun 16, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	51 min
Jun 16, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin	35 min
Jun 16, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson	47 min
Jun 16, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Roanoke, City of Roanoke	36 min
Jun 16, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	City of Salem	36 min
Jun 16, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Mercer	49 min
Jun 16, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Forsyth	33 min
Jun 16, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Alleghany, Bath, City of Covington	48 min
Jun 16, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Lexington	50 min
Jun 16, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	City of Buena Vista	50 min
Jun 16, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Augusta, City of Staunton, City of Waynesboro	62 min
Jun 16, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Amherst	37 min
Jun 16, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	51 min
Jun 16, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Craig	47 min
Jun 16, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	50 min
Jun 16, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bland	32 min
Jun 16, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Roanoke, City of Roanoke	51 min
Jun 16, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	City of Salem	51 min
Jun 16, 5:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista	112 min
Jun 16, 5:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	City of Lexington	112 min
Jun 16, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Botetourt	19 min
Jun 16, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Nicholas	49 min
Jun 16, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette, Kanawha	36 min
Jun 16, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Rockbridge, City of Buena Vista, City of Lexington	29 min
Jun 16, 5:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Kanawha	2 hr
Jun 16, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba	35 min
Jun 16, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas	48 min
Jun 16, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	48 min

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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
Jun 16, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Durham, Edgecombe and 17 more	6 hr
Jun 16, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland and 19 more	6 hr
Jun 16, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick and 20 more	6 hr
Jun 16, 12:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Braxton, Brooke, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 18 more	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 1998 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 1998 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 1998 Every 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.