Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Charleston, WV

June 13, 1997Cabell County, Putnam County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 2:42 PM EDT for Cabell County, Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 48 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 13, 1997, 2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cabell County, WV, Putnam County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 1997-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 673 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 1997-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 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
673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 131843 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC011-079-131930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
242 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...EASTERN CABELL COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...PUTNAM COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS AND SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES A SMALL BUT
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL CABELL COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND
WILL REMAIN JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 64. THE STORM IS INCREASING RAPIDLY
IN STRENGTH.
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER
FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL
...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
.EOM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 2:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRitchie56 min
Jun 13, 2:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDoddridge54 min
Jun 13, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha25 min
Jun 13, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette62 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.