Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2000, 3:11 PM EDT for Mingo County, West Virginia. It was in force for 19 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
- Apr 17, 2000, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mingo County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 3:18 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Kermit, 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
456 WUUS51 KRLX 171912 SVRCRW WVC059-171930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 311 PM EDT MON APR 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN MINGO COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 330 PM EDT... * AT 311 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME NORTHWESTERN MINGO COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 8:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 118 min |
| Apr 17, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 19 min |
| Apr 17, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 27 min |
| Apr 17, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Roane | 17 min |
| Apr 17, 1:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lewis | 23 min |
| Apr 17, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour | 13 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.