WX-TOR Digest 8 Jan 1998

 

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 22:58:31 -0600
From: Charley Kline <kline@UX2.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Tornado Warning -082258 (AUTOMATIC)

ZCZC DD+ 60239
WFUS1 KCRW 090458
TORCRW
WVC107-090515-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1156 PM EST THU JAN 8 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......

IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA

...NORTHERN WOOD COUNTY

AT 1152 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
OVER NORTHERN WOOD COUNTY NEAR MURPHYTOWN....ALONG U.S. 50.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST TOWARDS WAVERLY.

<< CALL TO ACTION >> THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. ACT QUICKLY.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW
GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

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