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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Charleston, WV

May 23, 2000Pocahontas County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 23, 2000, 7:14 PM EDT for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 36 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
May 23, 2000, 7:14 PM EDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2000, 7:50 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Pocahontas County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2000-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KRLX 232314
TORCRW
WVC075-232350-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
714 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 750 PM EDT...

* AT 713 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARLINTON OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  SfLATYFORK... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO PRIMARILY AFFECT RURAL AREAS.

<< 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 6:45 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXWebster35 min

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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.