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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Charleston, WV

July 28, 2000McDowell County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 2:26 PM EDT for McDowell 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: Jul 28, 2000, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County McDowell County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 360 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

881 
WUUS51 KRLX 281826
SVRCRW
WVC047-281900-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
226 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT...

* AT 223 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF IAEGER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...WELCH.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.

$$

LAT...LON 3734 8182 3743 8149 3747 8151 3748 8159
          3752 8165 3752 8169 3750 8169 3748 8173
          3751 8183 3754 8184 3753 8191 3747 8198

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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 28, 10:41 AM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 10:41 AM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-KYZ101>
103-105-VAZ003-004-282030-
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1041 AM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK ONCE AGAIN.  SURFACE BASED
CAPES PEAK OUT IN THE 2000-300 J/KG POSSIBLE BASED OFF MODIFIED 12Z
SOUNDINGS FROM RNK AND ILN.  LOOKS LIKE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE.

CURRENT FORECAST TEMPERATURES LOOK REASONABLE...AND WILL BE LEFT
ALONE.

.RLX...
WV...NONE.
VA...NONE
KY...NONE.
OH...NONE.

.END/BELK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 1:27 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
127 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1210 PM    LINN                      WV   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   GILMER                         AUTOMOBILE DAMAGED PAINT
                                          CHIPPED AND TOP DAMAGED
                                          HAIL RANGED FROM PEA TO
                                          DIME SIZE

1220 PM    ALUM BRIDGE               WV   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   LEWIS                          DIME SIZE HAIL AND
                     `                     MULTIPLE LIMBS DOWN FROM
                                          TREES

Local storm report, Jul 28, 1:54 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

ZCZC CRWLSRCRW DEF
TTAA00 KCRW DDHHMM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0154 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0133 PM    PORTSMOUTH                OH   .50 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   SCIOTO                         EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0118 PM  AND  0133 PM

0135 PM    PORTSMOUTH                OH   .50 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   SCIOTO                         EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0120 PM  AND  0135 PM

0137 PM    SOUTH SHORE               KY   PEA SIZE HAIL
07/28/00   GREENUP                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0122 PM  AND  0137 PM

0139 PM    SOUTH SHORE               KY   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   GREENUP                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0124 PM  AND  0139 PM

0141 PM    PORTSMOUTH                OH   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   SCIOTO                         EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0126 PM  AND  0141 PM

0143 PM    PORTSMOUTH                OH   .50 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   SCIOTO                         EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0128 PM  AND  0143 PM

0202 PM    PINEVILLE                 WV   PEA SIZE HAIL
07/28/00   WYOMING                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0147 PM  AND  0202 PM

0204 PM    VANSANT                   VA   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   BUCHANAN                       EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0149 PM  AND  0204 PM

Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:09 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

ZCZC CRWLSRCRW DEF
TTAA00 KCRW DDHHMM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0209 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0206 PM    SOUTH WEBSTER             OH   WIND DAMAGE
07/28/00   SCIOTO                         TREES DOWN.
                                          EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0151 PM  AND  0206 PM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 11:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gilmer, Lewis	46 min
Jul 28, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	42 min
Jul 28, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	31 min
Jul 28, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln	26 min
Jul 28, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Putnam	35 min
Jul 28, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	34 min
Jul 28, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Putnam	42 min
Jul 28, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan	41 min
Jul 28, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone	37 min
Jul 28, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	34 min
Jul 28, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	38 min
Jul 28, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.