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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Charleston, WV

June 18, 1997Harrison County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1997, 1:51 PM EDT for Harrison County, West Virginia. It was in force for 39 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 18, 1997, 1:51 PM EDT (17:51 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1997, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Harrison County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1997-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 386 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1997-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 234 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
386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
234 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

463 
WUUS1 KCRW 181756 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC033-181830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
151 PM EDT WED JUN 18 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...HARRISON COUNTY
 
AT 150 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER CLARKSBURG. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
35 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD
MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DONT USE
TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTaylor25 min
Jun 18, 2:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoane29 min
Jun 18, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWirt39 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.