Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2000, 1:40 PM EDT for Gilmer County, West Virginia. It was in force for 20 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
- Jun 15, 2000, 1:40 PM EDT (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gilmer County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Glenville, WV | Fallen trees blocked Route 33 and Route 5. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
464 WUUS51 KRLX 151740 SVRCRW WVC021-151800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 140 PM EDT THU JUN 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GILMER COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 200 PM EDT... * AT 129 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF CEDAR CREEK ST PK...OR ABOUT OVER GRANTSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...SAND FORK. <<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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 19 min |
| Jun 14, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Roane | 26 min |
| Jun 15, 1:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason, Putnam | 17 min |
| Jun 15, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lewis | 30 min |
| Jun 15, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Upshur | 22 min |
| Jun 15, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour | 38 min |
| Jun 15, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay | 38 min |
| Jun 15, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph | 25 min |
| Jun 15, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 27 min |
| Jun 15, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Webster | 21 min |
| Jun 15, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Upshur | 33 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.