Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Charleston, WV

July 27, 1997Wirt County, Wood County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1997, 7:19 PM EDT for Wirt County, Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 1997, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1997, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 27, 7:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Chesterville, WV
Jul 27, 7:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Mineral Wells, WV

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 27, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 1903 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 272322 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC105-107-280000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
719 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...WIRT COUNTY...EASTERN WOOD COUNTY
 
A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED NEAR THE CHESTERVILLE AND
SLATE REGION OF EASTERN WOOD COUNTY AT 7:15 PM.
 
THE STORM WILL DRIFT INTO THE TUCKER CREEK AREA OF WIRT COUNTY.
 
DIME SIZE HAIL OR STRONG WIND GUSTS ARE LIKELY OVER A SMALL AREA.
TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
 
END / KTB / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
 
 
 
 
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD
MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE
TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE
STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.