Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Aug 9, 2000, 8:54 PM EDT for Cabell County, Lincoln County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 36 min. 3 reports 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
- Aug 9, 2000, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabell County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 9:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, WV | Scattered locations throughout the county had trees or large branches blown down. |
| Aug 9, 9:20 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Branchland, WV | Trees were chopped off midway up their trunk, plus bark was peeled off of other trees. Dwellings suffered roof damage. At least 2 mobile homes were destroyed along Peyton Branch Road. |
| Aug 9, 9:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Griffithsville, WV | A house sustained roof damage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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.
000 WFUS51 KRLX 100055 TORCRW WVC011-039-043-099-100130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 854 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CABELL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... KANAWHA COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... LINCOLN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... WAYNE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 930 PM EDT... * AT 849 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED ALONG ROUTE 2 IN CABELL COUNTY AND FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED IN KANAWHA COUNTY. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WAYNE...HUNTINGTON... HAMLIN...CHARLESTON AND BEECH FORK ST PK. <<CALL TO ACTION>>IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR 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, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Putnam | 45 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 |
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.