Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 7:03 PM EDT for Mason County, West Virginia; Meigs County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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
- Aug 9, 2000, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Meigs County, OH, Mason County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, OH | Scattered locations throughout the county had trees and large branches knocked down. |
| Aug 9, 7:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenwood, WV | Large tree limbs and a few large trees were knocked down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:15 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 163 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
- 2404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KRLX 092303 SVRCRW OHC105-WVC053-092345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 703 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MEIGS COUNTY IN OHIO... MASON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 745 PM EDT... * AT 700 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF SYRACUSE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...POINT PLEASANT... RACINE...POMEROY AND FORKED RUN STATE FOREST. <<CALL TO ACTION>>THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772. $$ LAT...LON 3916 8198 3882 8217 3887 8188 3918 8176
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 12:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 12:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Ritchie | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 35 min |
| Aug 9, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Fayette, Nicholas, Webster | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Lewis, Upshur | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Taylor | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Putnam | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 11:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 11:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Vinton | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 12:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Vinton | 37 min |
| Aug 9, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Vinton | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.