Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2000, 6:44 PM EDT for Hancock County, West Virginia; Jefferson County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 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
- May 23, 2000, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 7:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, OH, Hancock County, WV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:07 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | New Alexandria, OH | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and power lines. |
| May 23, 7:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Newell, WV | Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree onto State Route 2. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 828 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
166 WUUS51 KPBZ 232245 SVRPIT OHC081-WVC029-232330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 644 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN OHIO HANCOCK COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA * UNTIL 720 PM EDT * AT 644 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEW CUMBERLAND...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF CHESTER...MOVING SOUTHEAST 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Brooke | 37 min |
| May 23, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Harrison, Jefferson | 63 min |
| May 23, 5:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 42 min |
| May 23, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 58 min |
| May 23, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Noble | 48 min |
| May 23, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 61 min |
| May 23, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Muskingum | 57 min |
| May 23, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Monroe | 57 min |
| May 23, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Noble | 47 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.