Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Charleston, WV

August 17, 1997Mason County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1997, 2:01 PM EDT for Mason County, West Virginia. It was in force for 44 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
Aug 17, 1997, 2:01 PM EDT (18:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1997, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Mason County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 17, 1:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 1:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWood57 min
Aug 17, 2:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson44 min
Aug 17, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell60 min
Aug 17, 3:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMason, Putnam66 min
Aug 17, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXClay, Roane49 min
Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell, Mason60 min
Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne60 min
Aug 17, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton52 min
Aug 17, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Lincoln, Putnam55 min
Aug 17, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWebster63 min
Aug 17, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha63 min
Aug 17, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRandolph, Upshur58 min
Aug 17, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXClay, Nicholas51 min
Aug 17, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRaleigh51 min
Aug 17, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone52 min
Aug 17, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWyoming42 min
Aug 17, 12:57 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPerry2 hr
Aug 17, 12:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson58 min
Aug 17, 12:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXVinton59 min
Aug 17, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Meigs55 min
Aug 17, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson15 min
Aug 17, 2:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia44 min
Aug 17, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence49 min
Aug 17, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton54 min
Aug 17, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence43 min
Aug 17, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence55 min
Aug 17, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens55 min
Aug 17, 1:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter, Greenup63 min
Aug 17, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter, Greenup54 min
Aug 17, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence51 min
Aug 17, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter44 min
Aug 17, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence43 min
Aug 17, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoyd46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.