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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Charleston, WV

June 15, 2000Roane County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2000, 2:02 PM EDT for Roane County, West Virginia. It was in force for 28 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, 2:02 PM EDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Roane County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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, 2:25 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Newton, WV	Several trees fell or were uprooted.

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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 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

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The text

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

702 
WUUS51 KRLX 151802
SVRCRW
WVC087-151830-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
202 PM EDT THU JUN 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ROANE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT...

* AT 153 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPENCER...MOVING EAST AT 40 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.

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 Jun 15, 10:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 10:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-
KYZ101>103-105-VAZ003-004-152100-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1045 AM EDT THU JUN 15 2000

SAT PIX SHOWING CLOUDS BECOMING WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE REGION WITH
88D INDICATING AREA OF TSRA WILL LITTLE CHANGE IN INTENSITY AS IN ENTERS
NWRN FA. 12Z SURFACE ANALYSIS HAS VERY WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY FROM
WEST OF TOL TO NEAR STL. EXPECT THIS WILL DRIFT EASTWARD AND BECOME
LESS DEFINED DURING THE DAY. MAIN FOCUS FOR TRIGGERING TSRA SHOULD
BE SHORTWAVE LIFTING OUT THROUGH WRN TN/KY ATTM. H250 JET POSITION
WILL ALSO PLACE EASTERN  HALF OF FA IN RER OF JET ALSO AIDING IN
DEVELOPMENT.

WILL LOWER TEMPS A CATEG IN THE EASTERN STRIP OF ZONES WITH LOTS OF
CLOUDS AND BASED ON MAXS FROM WEDNESDAY WITH MORE SUN.

THATS IF FOR NOW.

.RLX...
WV...NONE.
VA...NONE.
KY...NONE.
OH...NONE.

NOGUEIRA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 1:32 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

ZCZC CRWLSRCRW DEF
TTAA00 KCRW DDHHMM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0132 PM EDT THU JUN 15 2000

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0131 PM    HUNTINGTON                WV   .50 INCH HAIL
06/15/00   CABELL                         EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0116 PM  AND  0131 PM

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, 1:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gilmer	20 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.