Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2008, 3:09 PM EDT for Pleasants County, Tyler County, Wood County, West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2008, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2008, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Washington County, OH, Pleasants County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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.
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 28, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 28, 3:07 PM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 3:07 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 155 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 OHZ066-067-075-076-083>086-WVZ009>011-291800- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-WOOD- PLEASANTS-TYLER- 155 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 629 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. BRIEF STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND DOWNPOURS ARE THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. KYZ101>103-105-OHZ087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>008-013>020-024>040-046-047- 291800- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE- CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN- RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS- HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER- UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 155 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 630 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. BRIEF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DOWNPOURS ARE THE MAIN THREAT FOR THIS AFTEERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 1:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 145 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 WVZ013>015-026-281830- BOONE-KANAWHA-LINCOLN-PUTNAM- 145 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT LINCOLN...NORTHWESTERN BOONE... SOUTHERN PUTNAM AND WESTERN KANAWHA COUNTIES... AT 140 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF HAMLIN...MOVING EAST AT 32 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR SWEETLAND...AND SPURLOCKVILLE AROUND 150 PM...GRIFFITHSVILLE...YAWKEY...AND ALKOL AROUND 155 PM...WOODVILLE AROUND 200 PM...SOD...AND JULIAN AROUND 205 PM...TORNADO AROUND 210 PM AND ALUM CREEK AROUND 215 PM. PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. 26
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 1:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 156 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 OHZ083-086-087-281845- GALLIA-JACKSON-LAWRENCE- 156 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT GALLIA...NORTHERN LAWRENCE AND SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTIES... AT 153 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTH OF LAKE VESUVIUS...MOVING EAST AT 31 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR WATERLOO AROUND 210 PM...CENTERPOINT AROUND 220 PM...GAGE AROUND 225 PM AND ADAMSVILLE AROUND 230 PM. PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. 26
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:24 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 224 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 WVZ015-016-026-027-281900- BOONE-CLAY-KANAWHA-ROANE- 224 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT KANAWHA...NORTH CENTRAL BOONE... SOUTH CENTRAL ROANE AND SOUTHWESTERN CLAY COUNTIES... AT 220 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER CHARLESTON...MOVING EAST AT 29 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR COAL FORK AROUND 230 PM...PINCH AROUND 240 PM...CLENDENIN AROUND 255 PM AND GLEN AROUND 300 PM. PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. 26
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:31 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 231 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 OHZ067-075-076-281915- ATHENS-MORGAN-WASHINGTON- 231 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL ATHENS...NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON AND SOUTHERN MORGAN COUNTIES... AT 229 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHESTERHILL... MOVING EAST AT 31 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR CHESTERHILL AROUND 240 PM...STOCKPORT AROUND 245 PM AND BEVERLY AROUND 300 PM. PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. 26
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:03 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 303 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 WVZ015-027-036-037-281945- CLAY-FAYETTE-KANAWHA-NICHOLAS- 303 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CLAY...EAST CENTRAL KANAWHA... NORTHWESTERN FAYETTE AND WESTERN NICHOLAS COUNTIES... AT 300 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 33 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND PEA-SIZED HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT INDORE...SWISS...CLAY...AND SUMMERSVILLE PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. 26
Local storm report, Jun 28, 3:09 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
309 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0250 PM TSTM WND DMG 10 SSW GALLIPOLIS 38.69N 82.26W
06/28/2008 GALLIA OH PUBLIC
TREES BLOWN DOWN
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ABEAVERSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 39 min |
| Jun 28, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Lewis, Ritchie | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Wood | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Roane, Wirt, Wood | 64 min |
| Jun 28, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wood | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 45 min |
| Jun 28, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Lawrence | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.