Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV

January 18, 1999Mingo County, Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1999, 1:08 AM EST for Mingo County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 47 min. 5 reports 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: Jan 18, 1999, 1:08 AM EST (06:08 UTC)
Expired: Jan 18, 1999, 1:55 AM EST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Mingo County, WV, Wayne County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:07 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
Jan 18, 1:25 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Crum, WV	Power lines were blown down.
Jan 18, 1:25 AM EST	Hail 0.75	Williamson, WV
Jan 18, 1:25 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Delbarton, WV	Large tree branches were downed.
Jan 18, 1:35 AM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Wayne, WV	Several large tree branches fell across the roads.
Jan 18, 1:35 AM EST	Hail 1.25	Lenore, 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 586 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 582 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 180607 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC059-099-180655-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
108 AM EST MON JAN 18 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MINGO COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA.
  SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA.

* UNTIL 155 AM EST.

* AT 105 AM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING MINGO AND SOUTHERN WAYNE
  COUNTIES FROM THE WEST...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

* SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE...
   KERMIT.
   CRUM.
   CHATTAROY.
   NOLAN.
   WILLIAMSON.

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

PLEASE REPORT ANY HAIL OR STRONG WINDS BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT
877-633-6772.

.END/JMV/TM

Nearby

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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.