Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Charleston, WV

June 25, 1997Mason County, Putnam County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 3:01 PM EDT for Mason County, Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 29 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, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1997, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Mason County, WV, Putnam County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

531 
WUUS1 KCRW 251902
SVRCRW
WVC053-079-251930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
301 PM EDT WED JUN 25 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
 
   ...SOUTHERN MASON COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY
 
AT 300 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ENTERING NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY
FROM SOUTHERN MASON COUNTY WEST OF BUFFALO AND FRAZIERS BOTTOM.  THE
TORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH AND SHOULD AFFECT THESE CITIES
BEFORE 330 PM.
 
<< 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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell	27 min
Jun 25, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln, Putnam	38 min
Jun 25, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	39 min
Jun 25, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell	29 min
Jun 25, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	31 min
Jun 25, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Fayette, Nicholas	54 min
Jun 25, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1997 Every 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.