Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 666
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 28, 1997, 1:30 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1997, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Allegany County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Bedford County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Washington County, PA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, Page County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Marion County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Preston County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Upshur County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:33 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
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 1:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 61 min |
| Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Garrett | 41 min |
| Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion, Monongalia | 41 min |
| Jul 28, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany | 42 min |
| Jul 28, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 42 min |
| Jul 28, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire | 45 min |
| Jul 28, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 448 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 813 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles and 11 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.