Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 7:05 PM EDT for Taylor County, West Virginia. It was in force for 35 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
- May 24, 2000, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 7:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor County, WV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:08 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Meadland, WV | |
| May 24, 7:08 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Rosemont, WV |
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 nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 348 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
993 WUUS51 KRLX 242304 SVRCRW WVC091-242340- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 705 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TAYLOR COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 740 PM EDT... * AT 703 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF GRAFTON OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF FLEMINGTON... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE... PRUNTYTOWN... FLEMINGTON... GRAFTON... SIMPSON... <<< CALL TO ACTION >>> DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS .END/PCZ N
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 2 hr |
| May 23, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 34 min |
| May 23, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Ritchie | 32 min |
| May 24, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison | 34 min |
| May 24, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph | 32 min |
| May 24, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 27 min |
| May 24, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour | 32 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.