Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 308
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 19, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1997, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Highland County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Marion County, WV, Mason County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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.
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Ross | 30 min |
| May 19, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Vinton | 63 min |
| May 19, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 48 min |
| May 19, 8:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Scioto | 2 hr |
| May 19, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 20 min |
| May 19, 10:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Adams, Scioto | 2 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 61 more | 6 hr |
| May 18, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll and 49 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe, Noble | 6 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.