Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT for Webster County, West Virginia. It was in force for 35 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
- May 23, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 7:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Webster County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:00 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Cowen, WV | |
| May 23, 7:10 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Cowen, WV | |
| May 23, 7:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cowen, WV | Trees were blown down in the Monongahela National Forest around the Three Forks of the Williams River, including the White Oak Fork region. In one location, about 40 trees were blown down in a swath about 150 yards long and 50 yards wide. |
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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
755 WFUS51 KRLX 232244 TORCRW WVC101-232320- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 645 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEBSTER COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 720 PM EDT... * AT 644 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF WEBSTER SPRINGS OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF COWEN... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE... CAMDEN ON GAULEY... COWEN... BOLAIR... WEBSTER SPRINGS... << CALL TO ACTION >> GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR .END/DANL N
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 36 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.