Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Charleston, WV

June 25, 1997Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 2:36 PM EDT for Wayne 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 25, 1997, 2:36 PM EDT (18:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1997, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 1997-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1032 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 1997-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1032 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1104 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

426 
WUUS1 KCRW 251837 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC099-251915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
236 PM EDT WED JUN 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 235 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST INTO NORTHERN WAYNE
COUNTY AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF KENOVA AND CEREDO.
 
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS
PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A S
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
BELK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell27 min
Jun 25, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln, Putnam38 min
Jun 25, 2:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell29 min
Jun 25, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMason, Putnam29 min
Jun 25, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha31 min
Jun 25, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXClay, Fayette, Nicholas54 min
Jun 25, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRaleigh25 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.