Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2000, 6:57 PM EDT for Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 3, 2000, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Putnam County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:58 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Winfield, WV | Trees were uprooted and the baseball dugouts were damaged in the city park. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1278 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
997 WUUS51 KRLX 032258 SVRCRW WVC079-032330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 657 PM EDT MON JUL 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 730 PM EDT... * AT 652 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR HURRICANE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF NITRO... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...TEAYS VALLEY...POCA AND BANCROFT. * THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND. <<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. TRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason, Putnam | 22 min |
| Jul 3, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam | 33 min |
| Jul 3, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 28 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.