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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Charleston, WV

July 28, 2000Raleigh County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 4:22 PM EDT for Raleigh County, West Virginia. It was in force for 38 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, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Raleigh County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 360 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

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The text

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

916 
WUUS51 KRLX 282023
SVRCRW
WVC081-282100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN RALEIGH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT...

* AT 410 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEASTERN BOONE COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT
  20 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 8144 3783 8138 3784 8130 3788 8124
          3789 8130 3793 8130 3796 8133 3797 8153
          3794 8156 3790 8156 3784 8153

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 11:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGilmer, Lewis46 min
Jul 28, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMcDowell, Wyoming42 min
Jul 28, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMcDowell34 min
Jul 28, 2:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne31 min
Jul 28, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln26 min
Jul 28, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPutnam35 min
Jul 28, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson34 min
Jul 28, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha, Putnam42 min
Jul 28, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLogan41 min
Jul 28, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone37 min
Jul 28, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha34 min
Jul 28, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.