Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 77
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 1, 1997, 4:30 PM EST for 5 counties in Kentucky; Buchanan County, Giles County, Highland County, Virginia; 17 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 1997, 4:30 PM EST (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Floyd County, KY, Knott County, KY, Martin County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Buchanan County, VA, Giles County, VA, Highland County, VA, Boone County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 5:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 5:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 60 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 539 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 665 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barren, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Graves and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ballard, Barren, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway and 22 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 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.