Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 1999, 7:24 PM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 21 min. 4 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 1999, 7:24 PM EDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 1999, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabell County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Wayne County, WV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Culloden, WV | Trees fell across Route 60. |
| Oct 13, 7:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hamlin, WV | |
| Oct 13, 7:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hurricane, WV | The total damage in Hurricane affected 17 homes and 2 mobile homes. Vehicles, storage buildings, a gazebo, a couple decks, numerous fences and swing sets were damaged by the wind or fallen trees. |
| Oct 13, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Hurricane, WV | The brief tornado touched down on Virginia Ave in the western limits of Hurricane. One house and its detached garage sustained significant damage. A wall to the garage collapsed, but the 2 men inside escaped without being injured. The location was on the lef |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha | 27 min |
| Oct 13, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Vinton | 22 min |
| Oct 13, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 24 min |
| Oct 13, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson | 28 min |
| Oct 13, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Meigs | 22 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.