Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 314
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 19, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT for 34 counties in Kentucky; 47 counties in Virginia; 16 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 97 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Augusta County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Norton, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, Craig County, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Lee County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Boone County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 52 min |
| May 19, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin | 60 min |
| May 19, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Augusta, Greene, Rockingham | 38 min |
| May 19, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Summers | 44 min |
| May 19, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Perry | 56 min |
| May 19, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan | 57 min |
| May 19, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 67 min |
| May 19, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Augusta, Nelson, City of Waynesboro | 44 min |
| May 19, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer | 28 min |
| May 19, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 54 min |
| May 19, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt | 42 min |
| May 19, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockbridge, City of Lexington | 42 min |
| May 19, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | City of Buena Vista | 42 min |
| May 19, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson | 27 min |
| May 19, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst | 52 min |
| May 19, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee, Wise, City of Norton | 44 min |
| May 19, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 45 min |
| May 19, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark | 24 min |
| May 19, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Amherst, Appomattox, Buckingham | 46 min |
| May 19, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 49 min |
| May 19, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 37 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1181 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Accomack, Albemarle, Amelia, Brunswick, Buckingham, Caroline and 56 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 11:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hancock | 5 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.