Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1997, 7:16 PM EDT for Cabell County, Lincoln County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 29 min. 4 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
- May 14, 1997, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1997, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabell County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:25 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Wayne, WV | |
| May 14, 7:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Melissa, WV | |
| May 14, 7:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Branchland, WV | |
| May 14, 7:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Ft Gay, 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 1547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 89 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 142318 RRA SVRCRW WVC011-043-099-142345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 716 PM EDT WED MAY 14 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...CABELL COUNTY...LINCOLN COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING RAPIDLY EASTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY. SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL ON THE GROUND NEAR LAVALETTE. ALSO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY WAS READY TO MOVE INTO WAYNE COUNTY. NICKEL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTS NEAR FALLSBURG. BOTH STORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE EAST AT AROUND 40 MPH. << CALL TO ACTION >> 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 S PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. .END/SITES &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.