Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Baltimore/Washington

July 28, 2000Berkeley County, West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 5:22 PM EDT for Berkeley County, West Virginia. It was in force for 38 min. 2 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: Jul 28, 2000, 5:22 PM EDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Whole counties

County Berkeley County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 28, 5:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Hedgesville, WV	Trees were downed.
Jul 28, 5:40 PM EDT	Hail 1	Hedgesville, WV	Quarter sized hail fell.

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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1099 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 28, 2:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Augusta, Nelson	117 min
Jul 28, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Albemarle, City of Charlottesville	64 min
Jul 28, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Prince William, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park	66 min
Jul 28, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Fauquier	66 min
Jul 28, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Fairfax, City of Falls Church	58 min
Jul 28, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	City of Fairfax	58 min
Jul 28, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Arlington, City of Alexandria	68 min
Jul 28, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Washington	45 min
Jul 28, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery	58 min
Jul 28, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Prince George's	68 min
Jul 28, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Hampshire, Hardy	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.