Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Charleston, WV

June 25, 1997Raleigh County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 5:35 PM EDT for Raleigh County, West Virginia. It was in force for 25 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, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Raleigh County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 1212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

719 
WUUS1 KCRW 252136 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC081-252200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
535 PM EDT WED JUN 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...EASTERN RALEIGH COUNTY
 
AT 535 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST TO THE WEST OF
BECKLEY. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH.
 
<< 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
 
BELK

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, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mason, Putnam	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

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.