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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Charleston, WV

July 28, 2000Boone County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 4:08 PM EDT for Boone County, West Virginia. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 28, 2000, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Boone County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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, 4:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Madison, WV	A few large trees were blown down.

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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 215 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.

864 
WUUS51 KRLX 282008
SVRCRW
WVC005-282045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BOONE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT...

* AT 358 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE
WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3778 8154 3782 8153 3783 8157 3795 8157
          3800 8148 3796 8166 3794 8180 3790 8176
          3787 8178 3781 8172 3784 8168 3778 8161

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, 4:07 PM EDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 4:07 PM EDT, 1 minute before

WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-KYZ101>
103-105-VAZ003-004-290830-
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
407 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

FORECAST IS STILL FAIRLY MURKY...AND THE PATTERN DOES NOT APPEAR TO
BE CHANGING TOO MUCH THE NEXT TWO DAYS.  WEAK SURFACE LOW PRESSURE
AND ITS ASSOCIATED FRONT NEVER REALLY SEEM TO MAKE IT ACROSS THE
CENTRAL APPALACHIANS.  INSTEAD BERMUDA HIGH LOOKS LIKE IT WILL MAKE
A STAB WESTWARD.

IN THE MEANTIME...I DO NOT LIKE THE 850 TEMPERATURES OF THE NGM.
SOUNDINGS FROM THIS MORNING WERE AROUND 15C RANGE.  EVEN WITH
SOUTHWEST FLOW TOMORROW...THINK THE NGM IS A BIT WARM WITH FORECAST
HIGHS SO WILL UNDERCUT BY A CATEGORY OR TWO DURING SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
WILL GO A BIT ABOVE GUIDANCE ON LOWS AS DEW POINTS ARE IN THE MID TO
UPPER 60S BOTH NIGHTS.

BEST CHANCES FOR RAIN WILL BE ALONG AND WEST OF THE OHIO RIVER.  AT
THIS TIME I AM NOT CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO DEFINE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH
AREA.  ALTHOUGH...I DO SEE SOME POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED FLOODING
PROBLEMS ON SATURDAY.

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

.END/BELK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
234 PM FRI JULY 28 2000

0203 PM    GRUNDY                    VA   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   BUCHANAN                       EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0148 PM  AND  0203 PM

Local storm report, Jul 28, 2:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0237 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....

0236 PM    AVONDALE                  WV   PEA SIZE HAIL
07/28/00   MCDOWELL                       EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0221 PM  AND  0236 PM

Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:15 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0315 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....

0311 PM    KERMIT                    WV   .50 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   MINGO                          EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0256 PM  AND  0311 PM

0313 PM    CULLODEN                  WV   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   CABELL                         EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0258 PM  AND  0313 PM

Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:49 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0349 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....

0347 PM    SAINT ALBANS              WV   PEA SIZE HAIL
07/28/00   KANAWHA                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0332 PM  AND  0347 PM

0351 PM    HARTS                     WV   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   LINCOLN                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0336 PM  AND  0351 PM

Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:57 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0357 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....

0355 PM    SAINT ALBANS              WV   PEA SIZE HAIL
07/28/00   KANAWHA                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0340 PM  AND  0355 PM

0357 PM    NITRO                     WV   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   KANAWHA                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0342 PM  AND  0357 PM

Local storm report, Jul 28, 4:01 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0401 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....

0359 PM    NITRO                     WV   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   KANAWHA                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0344 PM  AND  0359 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, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	34 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, 4:11 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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.