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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Blacksburg, VA

May 24, 2000Summers County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 10:44 PM EDT for Summers County, West Virginia. It was in force for 46 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 24, 2000, 10:44 PM EDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area
Whole counties

County Summers County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 503 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 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
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

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The text

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

098 
WFUS51 KRNK 250244
TORRNK
WVC089-250330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
1044 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SUMMERS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT.

* AT 1043 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF SANDSTONE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS THREATENED THROUGH 1130 PM EDT INCLUDE

    SANDSTONE... 
    HINTON...

<<CALL TO ACTION>>THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
$$
JDS

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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.