Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Charleston, WV

Issued

Jul 29, 2000, 8:44 PM EDT (00:44 UTC)

Expired

Jul 29, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT

In force

16 min

Issued by

NWS Charleston, WV

Area

Whole counties

County Wayne County, WV

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

089 
WUUS51 KRLX 300044
SVRCRW
WVC099-300100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT...

* AT 842 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 15 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 3810 8251 3795 8244 3798 8226 3804 8220
          3811 8227 3819 8227

NWS Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 29, 3:41 PM EDT, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.

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

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.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.