Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Charleston, WV

May 14, 1997Lincoln County, Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1997, 7:53 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1997, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lincoln County, WV, Wayne County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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, 7:55 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 142355
SVRCRW
WVC043-099-150030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
753 PM EDT WED MAY 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...LINCOLN COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH
CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY SOUTH OF HAMLIN. ALSO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY WILL ENTER WAYNE COUNTY
NEAR LOUISA. BOTH STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 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 DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
.END/SITES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1997 Every 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.