Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Charleston, WV

July 29, 2000Lincoln County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT for Lincoln County, West Virginia. It was in force for 30 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, 9:45 PM EDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2000, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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, 9:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumerco, WV	Trees were blown down along Porter Fork and Route 214.

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 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

151 
WUUS51 KRLX 300149
SVRCRW
WVC043-300215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT...

* AT 945 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALUM CREEK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  15 MPH.

.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE
A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3823 8207 3813 8195 3823 8181 3831 8184
          3832 8192 3836 8192

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, 8:52 PM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 8:52 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-
KYZ101>103-105-VAZ003-004-301250-

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

QUICK UPDATE TO CANCEL WATCH FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND UP POPS FOR
EASTERN AND NORTHERN ZONES.

.RLX...
WV...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1100 PM EDT SATURDAY FOR ZONES
WVZ005>006...WVZ013>015...WVZ024>027...WVZ033>037.

VA...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1100 PM EDT SATURDAY FOR ZONES
VAZ003-004.

KY...NONE.
OH...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 9:10 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

KYZ101>103-105-300200-

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

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...

THE STRONGEST LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED INTO WESTERN WEST
VIRGINIA AS OF 910 PM.  HENCE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS
PASSED.  WIDESPREAD SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED TO LINGER THROUGH THE
EVENING.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	16 min
Jul 29, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln	47 min
Jul 29, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone	27 min
Jul 29, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	51 min
Jul 29, 10:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam	3 hr
Jul 29, 10:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson	3 hr
Jul 30, 4:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Webster	3 hr
Jul 30, 4:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Randolph	3 hr
Jul 30, 5:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Kanawha	3 hr
Jul 30, 5:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Logan	3 hr
Jul 30, 5:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Boone	3 hr
Jul 30, 6:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Braxton	3 hr
Jul 30, 6:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Raleigh, Wyoming	3 hr
Jul 30, 6:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Roane	3 hr
Jul 30, 7:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell	3 hr
Jul 30, 7:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Harrison	4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2000 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.