Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 10:27 PM EDT for Fayette County, West Virginia. It was in force for 18 min. 1 report 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 24, 2000, 10:27 PM EDT (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:28 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 24, 10:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Layland, WV | Large tree branches were snapped off. |
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 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 503 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1306 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KRLX 250226 TORCRW WVC019-250245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1027 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 1045 PM EDT... * AT 1026 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF FAYETTEVILLE... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME COMMUNITIES WHICH MAY BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE... LANDISBURG... LAYLAND... LAWTON... DANESE... << CALL TO ACTION >> GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! .END/PCZ N M
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason, Putnam | 32 min |
| May 24, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 36 min |
| May 24, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 34 min |
| May 24, 9:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay | 36 min |
| May 24, 9:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 32 min |
| May 24, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lewis, Upshur | 35 min |
| May 25, 2:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 30 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.