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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Charleston, WV

July 29, 2000Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2000, 7:04 PM EDT for Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 26 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 29, 2000, 7:04 PM EDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 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 29, 7:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wayne, WV	Trees were knocked down along Route 37.

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
Jul 29, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 922 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KRLX 292305
SVRCRW
WVC099-292330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
704 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT...

* AT 702 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT GAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...WAYNE AND BEECH FORK
  ST PK.

<<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 3813 8262 3799 8249 3812 8228 3825 8226
          3834 8239

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 29, 3:41 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 3:41 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-
KYZ101>103-105-VAZ003-004-300830-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
341 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000

SAME OLD...SAME OLD.  PROBLEM OF THE DAY...AND PAST FEW DAYS...IS
WHERE THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL FALL.  EVEN WITH VERY LUSH VEGETATION
FOR LATE JULY...I AM STILL CONCERNED ABOUT LOCALIZED FLOODING
PROBLEMS OVER SOUTHEAST OHIO.  AFTER COORDINATING WITH ILN...WILL NOT
ISSUE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH AT THIS TIME.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN
FAIRLY LIGHT THROUGHOUT THE DAY...BUT THE RAIN SHOULD TRAIN ACROSS
THIS AREA FOR MUCH OF TONIGHT.

MODELS APPEAR TO HAVE SETTLED UPON A SOLUTION...ALTHOUGH I FEEL THE
NGM IS STILL TOO WARM IN THE LOW LEVELS.  MAIN THRUST OF UPPER
DYNAMICS SHOULD MOVE NORTHEAST ALONG THE OHIO RIVER TONIGHT AND BE
OVER PENNSYLVANIA TOMORROW.  MAIN UPPER LOW SHOULD RETROGRADE...
ALLOWING BERMUDA HIGH TO SLIP WEST.  THEREFORE I EXPECT A WARMING
TREND HEADING INTO THE NEW WORK WEEK.  RAIN CHANCES SHOULD ALSO
DIMINISH WITH UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT MOVING FARTHER TO THE WEST.

GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES APPEAR REASONABLE FOR THE NIGHTTIME LOWS.  BUT
WILL UNDERCUT THEN BOTH DAYS...SUNDAY MORE THAN MONDAY.

THANKS ILN FOR COORDINATION.

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

.END / BELK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 3:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

WVZ047-292000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
342 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000

THUNDERSTORMS CROSSING THROUGH RANDOLPH COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA ARE
PRODUCING RAINFALL OF AROUND AN INCH IN AN HOUR IN SOME LOCATIONS.
THE HEAVIEST RECENT RAINS...HAVE FALLEN FROM MILL CREEK NORTHWARD TO
ELKINS.  PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS
POSSIBLE...AND A FEW SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY RISE TO NEAR
BANKFULL LEVELS.

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.