Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Charleston, WV
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.
- 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
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 8153The 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, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 37 min |
| Jul 28, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 34 min |
| Jul 28, 4:30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.