Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1997, 3:22 PM EDT for Braxton County, West Virginia. It was in force for 68 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
- Jun 2, 1997, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1997, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Braxton County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 021922 RRA SVRCRW WVC007-022030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 322 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...NORTHERN BRAXTON COUNTY RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEASTERN BRAXTON COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 10 MPH. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL GREATER THAN 1 INCH AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF 1.5 INCHES IN 1 HOUR. << CALL TO ACTION >> SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCT"IVE 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Roane | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Putnam, Raleigh | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 10:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lewis, Upshur | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 2:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 2:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Ritchie | 64 min |
| Jun 2, 3:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Ritchie | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wirt | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 3:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Upshur | 68 min |
| Jun 2, 4:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wirt | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 65 min |
| Jun 2, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Roane | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Lewis, Upshur | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 5:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 58 min |
| Jun 2, 6:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 4 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.