Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT for Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 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 00:44 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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
- 367 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1279 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
487 WFUS51 KRLX 100045 TORCRW WVC079-100130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 845 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 930 PM EDT... * AT 839 PM EDT...KANAWAHA METRO REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR WINFIELD LOCKS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WINFIELD. <<CALL TO ACTION>> IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Kanawha, Putnam | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 12:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 12:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Putnam | 3 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.