Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2000, 10:51 PM EDT for Ohio County, West Virginia. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 14, 2000, 10:51 PM EDT (02:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2000, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ohio County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 10:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, WV | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines. |
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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 1344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1478 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
104 WUUS51 KPBZ 150251 SVRPIT WVC069-150315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 1051 PM EDT WED JUN 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OHIO COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA * UNTIL 1115 PM EDT * AT 1051 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WHEELING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. <<CALL TO ACTION>>SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MILES AN HOUR AND LARGE HAIL GREATER THAN THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marion | 39 min |
| Jun 14, 10:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Wetzel | 59 min |
| Jun 14, 10:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 61 min |
| Jun 15, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Tucker | 53 min |
| Jun 15, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2000Every 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.