Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 21, 1999, 4:36 PM EST for Cabell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 1999, 4:36 PM EST (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 1999, 5:10 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cabell County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 84 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WUUS1 KCRW 212138 RRA SVRCRW WVC011-212210- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...RETRANSMISSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 436 PM EST THU JAN 21 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CABELL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA * UNTIL 510 PM EST * AT 435 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF HUNTINGTON... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE... CULLODEN. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS PLEASE REPORT ANY HAIL OR STRONG WINDS BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 877-633-6772. .END/BELK
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 21, 1:21 PM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
WVZ007-008-OHZ086-212010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 121 PM EST THU JAN 21 1999 ...MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BROUGHT AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF RAINFALL TO MASON AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA...AND GALLIA COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT AROUND AN INCH OF RAIN FELL ACROSS MUCH OF THIS AREA. THE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS DIMINISHING AND THINNING...AND THIS TREND IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH 3 PM. SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON... BUT RAINFALL IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE AS HEAVY OR WIDESPREAD AS IT WAS THIS MORNING. MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS...INCLUDING SOME ROADS...HAS BEEN REPORTED. THIS IS EXPECTED TO LINGER DURING THE AFTERNOON. STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY RISE TO OR LINGER NEAR BANKFULL...HOWEVER SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. .END/NMB
Special weather statement, Jan 21, 2:00 PM EST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
WVZ016-018-028>030-039-047-212200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 200 PM EST THU JAN 21 1999 ...MINOR FLOODING EXPECTED IN PORTIONS OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA THIS AFTERNOON... A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BROUGHT RAINFALL TO MUCH OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA THIS AFTERNOON. DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS...THE PRECIPITATION HAS DIMINISHED. HOWEVER...AT 200 PM RADAR INDICATED THAT A BAND OF SHOWERS STILL EXTENDED FROM THE ELKINS AREA...WESTWARD TO THE SPENCER AREA IN ROANE COUNTY. SHOWERS IN THIS BAND WERE MOVING EASTWARD...REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME AREA. WEST VIRGINIA COUNTIES IN THE PATH OF THIS BAND INCLUDE ROANE... CALHOUN...GILMER...BRAXTON...LEWIS...UPSHUR...AND RANDOLPH. THE BAND OF SHOWERS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DIMINISH THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...EVENTUALLY LEAVING OUR AREA WITH ONLY SCATTERED SHOWERS. THE BAND SHOULD LEAVE THE ROANE COUNTY AREA FIRST...AND RANDOLPH COUNTY LAST. MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS...INCLUDING SOME ROADS...IS EXPECTED DURING THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY RISE TO OR REMAIN NEAR BANKFULL. HOWEVER...SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH EARLY EVENING. .END/NMB
Special weather statement, Jan 21, 4:00 PM EST, 36 minutes before
WVZ009-017>019-028-029-220259- CALHOUN WV-GILMER WV-RITCHIE WV-BRAXTON WV-WIRT WV-WOOD WV- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 400 PM EST THU JAN 21 1999 A SHARP RISE ON THE LITTLE KANAWHA RIVER IS EXPECTED TONIGHT FROM GLENVILLE ON DOWN THROUGH GRANTSVILLE...ELIZABETH...TO PARKERSBURG. RAINS OF AN INCH TO NEARLY AN INCH AND A HALF FELL DURING THE DAY ON THURSDAY. THE RIVER WILL RISE TO NEAR THREE QUARTER BANKFULL LATE TONIGHT IN THE GLENVILLE REACH...AND BY FRIDAY FOR THE LOWER REACH OF THE RIVER IN WIRT AND WOOD COUNTIES. NO RIVER FLOODING IS EXPECTED FROM THURSDAYS RAIN. SMALL STREAMS FLOWING INTO THE LITTLE KANAWHA MAY BACK UP DUE TO THE SHARP RISE. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR RIVERS FRIDAY AND THIS WEEKEND...FOR ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS. .END / KTB
Special weather statement, Jan 21, 4:00 PM EST, 36 minutes before
WVZ009-017>019-028-029-220259- CALHOUN WV-GILMER WV-RITCHIE WV-BRAXTON WV-WIRT WV-WOOD WV- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 400 PM EST THU JAN 21 1999 A SHARP RISE ON THE LITTLE KANAWHA RIVER IS EXPECTED TONIGHT FROM GLENVILLE ON DOWN THROUGH GRANTSVILLE...ELIZABETH...TO PARKERSBURG. RAINS OF AN INCH TO NEARLY AN INCH AND A HALF FELL DURING THE DAY ON THURSDAY. THE RIVER WILL RISE TO NEAR THREE QUARTER BANKFULL LATE TONIGHT IN THE GLENVILLE REACH...AND BY FRIDAY FOR THE LOWER REACH OF THE RIVER IN WIRT AND WOOD COUNTIES. NO RIVER FLOODING IS EXPECTED FROM THURSDAYS RAIN. SMALL STREAMS FLOWING INTO THE LITTLE KANAWHA MAY BACK UP DUE TO THE SHARP RISE. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR RIVERS FRIDAY AND THIS WEEKEND...FOR ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS. .END / KTB
Special weather statement, Jan 21, 4:00 PM EST, 36 minutes before
WVZ009-017>019-028-029-220259- CALHOUN WV-GILMER WV-RITCHIE WV-BRAXTON WV-WIRT WV-WOOD WV- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 400 PM EST THU JAN 21 1999 A SHARP RISE ON THE LITTLE KANAWHA RIVER IS EXPECTED TONIGHT FROM GLENVILLE ON DOWN THROUGH GRANTSVILLE...ELIZABETH...TO PARKERSBURG. RAINS OF AN INCH TO NEARLY AN INCH AND A HALF FELL DURING THE DAY ON THURSDAY. THE RIVER WILL RISE TO NEAR THREE QUARTER BANKFULL LATE TONIGHT IN THE GLENVILLE REACH...AND BY FRIDAY FOR THE LOWER REACH OF THE RIVER IN WIRT AND WOOD COUNTIES. NO RIVER FLOODING IS EXPECTED FROM THURSDAYS RAIN. SMALL STREAMS FLOWING INTO THE LITTLE KANAWHA MAY BACK UP DUE TO THE SHARP RISE. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR RIVERS FRIDAY AND THIS WEEKEND...FOR ANY ADDITIONAL RAINS. .END / KTB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 9:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 35 min |
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.