Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Watches in 1998

Tornado Watch 410

May 24, 19984 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 24, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 1998, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 1998, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 96 counties

Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Powell County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Allegany County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Brown County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Grant County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Marion	45 min
May 24, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Harrison	39 min
May 24, 7:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PBZ	Monongalia	38 min
May 24, 7:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln	4 hr
May 24, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	46 min
May 24, 7:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Lincoln	67 min
May 24, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tucker	66 min
May 24, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Preston	63 min
May 24, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone	63 min
May 24, 7:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee	47 min
May 24, 7:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Taylor	52 min
May 24, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	50 min
May 24, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Monongalia	33 min
May 24, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants	43 min
May 24, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	55 min
May 24, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	63 min
May 24, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Randolph	49 min
May 24, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	31 min
May 24, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Garrett	63 min
May 24, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	12 min
May 24, 8:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie	52 min
May 24, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Tucker	48 min
May 24, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	63 min
May 24, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	34 min
May 24, 9:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Boone	3 hr
May 24, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	45 min
May 24, 9:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	33 min
May 24, 9:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	33 min
May 24, 9:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo, Wayne	53 min
May 24, 10:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott	46 min
May 24, 10:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Monongalia	110 min
May 24, 10:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Carter, Lawrence	46 min
May 24, 11:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Monongalia	3 hr
May 25, 12:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	40 min

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 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

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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
May 23, 8:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Anderson, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Carroll, Casey and 25 more	5 hr
May 24, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle and 50 more	6 hr

Nearby

Tornado Watches in West Virginia, 1998 Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 1998 Tornado Watches in Ohio, 1998 Every tornado 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.