Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 557
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 2, 1997, 8:00 PM EDT for 6 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 2, 1997, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1997, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 60 counties
Floyd County, KY, Knott County, KY, Martin County, KY, Pike County, KY, Garrett County, MD, Belmont County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Noble County, OH, Washington County, OH, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Giles County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers 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, Wyoming County, WV
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Meigs, Vinton | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 51 min |
| Jul 2, 9:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 53 min |
| Jul 2, 9:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 55 min |
| Jul 2, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 10:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 11:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mingo | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 11:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Mingo | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 11:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 51 min |
| Jul 3, 12:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mingo | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 12:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cameron, Crawford, Elk, Erie, Forest, McKean and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bucks, Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Monroe, Montgomery and 4 more | 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.