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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Charleston, WV

July 10, 2000Putnam County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2000, 3:33 PM EDT for Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2000, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Putnam County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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 10, 4:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Winfield, WV	Trees and power lines were knocked down.
Jul 10, 4:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Eleanor, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 10, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 1291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

053 
WUUS51 KRLX 101933
SVRCRW
WVC079-102015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
333 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT...

* AT 323 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF BUFFALO...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF WINFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...TEAYS VALLEY...
  POCA...HURRICANE...ELEANOR AND BANCROFT.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE
A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.

LAT...LON 3845 8205 3833 8192 3837 8192 3841 8188
          3846 8174 3861 8187 3865 8196 3861 8205

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 Jul 10, 10:49 AM EDT, 4 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 10:49 AM EDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-
KYZ101>103-105-VAZ003-004-110233-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1049 AM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

REMNANTS OF THE MCS THIS MORNING SLOWLY DYING OFF.  CLOUD TOPS
WARMING OVER EASTERN OHIO AND WITH MAIN MCC OVER NORTHERN ILLINOIS
AND NORTHERN INDIANA.

06Z ETA FORECAST SOUNDINGS INDICATE IF WE GET TO SAY 90F WITH OUR
CURRENT DEW POINTS AROUND 70F...SURFACE BASED CAPES WOULD BE IN
EXCESS OF 2500 J/KG ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.  THESE ARE THE ARES OF BEST SUNSHINE NOW.

MAIN THREAT WILL BE FLASH FLOODING FROM POTENTIALLY HEAVY RAINS FROM
THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT.  WILL LEAVE FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALONE FOR
NOW.  WILL WAIT FOR THE AFTERNOON PACKAGE TO DETERMINE IF IT NEEDS
TO BE EXTENDED AND/OR EXPANDED.

CURRENT FORECAST HIGH TEMPERATURES LOOK REASONABLE BASED ON MORNING
SOUNDINGS AND EXPECTED SUNSHINE.

.RLX...
WV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MONDAY FOR ZONES WVZ007>011...
WVZ014>020...WVZ027>032...WVZ036>040...WVZ046>047.

VA...NONE.
KY...NONE.
OH...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MONDAY FOR ZONES OHZ066>067...
OHZ075>076...OHZ083>086.

.END/BELK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie	18 min
Jul 10, 1:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gilmer	23 min
Jul 10, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	40 min
Jul 10, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Taylor	31 min
Jul 10, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Roane	38 min
Jul 10, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lewis	25 min
Jul 10, 3:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Putnam	15 min
Jul 10, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	35 min
Jul 10, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln	39 min
Jul 10, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone	32 min
Jul 10, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	45 min
Jul 10, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Roane	30 min
Jul 10, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	41 min
Jul 10, 7:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Pleasants	20 min
Jul 10, 7:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Pleasants	2 hr
Jul 10, 7:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Mingo	26 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.