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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Charleston, WV

March 29, 1997Dickenson County, Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 1997, 1:16 AM EST for Dickenson County, Virginia. It was in force for 29 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: Mar 29, 1997, 1:16 AM EST (06:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 1997, 1:45 AM EST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Dickenson County, VA

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 28, 11:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 1391 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 388 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

482 
WUUS1 KCRW 290616 RRA
SVRCRW
VAC051-290645-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
116 AM EST SAT MAR 29 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...DICKENSON COUNTY
 
CHARLESTON WEATHER RADAR HAS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
WEST OF CLINTWOOD MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST-NORTHEAST 40 MPH. THIS STORM
WILL MOVE OVER THE CLINTWOOD AREA BY 130 AM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
 
END/SIKORA

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 29, 1:01 AM EST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
101 AM EST SAT MAR 29 1997

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1115 PM    RIPLEY                    WV   .75 INCH HAIL
03/28/97   JACKSON                        DIME SIZE HAIL.

SIKORA

Local storm report, Mar 29, 1:05 AM EST, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
101 AM EST SAT MAR 29 1997

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATI:ON....

1115 PM    RIPLEY                    WV   .75 INCH HAIL
03/28/97   JACKSON                        DIME SIZE HAIL.

SIKORA

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.