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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Charleston, WV

June 13, 1997Buchanan County, Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 7:44 PM EDT for Buchanan County, Virginia. It was in force for 31 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, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Buchanan County, VA

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 225 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1997-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 94 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, Roanoke, VA 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.19395878Sfc1 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
94 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
802 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 132344
SVRCRW
VAC027-140015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
744 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN BUCHANAN COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IS INDICATING POSSIBLY SEVERE STORMS
MOVING INTO THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF BUCHANAN COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE
MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND MAY CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND GUST IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. THESE STORMS ARE GENERALLY NEAR RT 460
AND FOLLOWING RTE 460 SOUTHEAST.
 
 
 
<< 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 PASS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDickenson44 min
Jun 13, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBuchanan14 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.