Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1997, 3:07 PM EDT for Roane County, West Virginia. It was in force for 38 min. 3 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
- Aug 15, 1997, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1997, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Roane County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 3:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Harmony, WV | |
| Aug 15, 3:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Harmony, WV | A cinderblock garage in Gandeeville was destroyed. The owner was leaving the garage when the storm began. He was hit in the back by a falling block, then pelted with hail as he ran to his nearby home. He was not injured. Windows and part of the roof were d |
| Aug 15, 3:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Gandeeville, 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1167 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
735 WUUS1 KCRW 151913 RRA SVRCRW WVC087-151945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 307 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...ROANE COUNTY AT 312 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING EAST INTO ROANE COUNTY AT 35 MPH. << CALL TO ACTION >> SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. .END/STRUBLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 35 min |
| Aug 15, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 29 min |
| Aug 15, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay | 49 min |
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.