Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 455
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 79 counties
Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Pike County, KY, Lawrence County, OH, Alleghany County, VA, Amherst 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 Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Harrisonburg, 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, Halifax County, VA, Highland 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, Rockingham 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, Cabell County, WV, Clay 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, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 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.
Warnings issued inside it
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln, Logan | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll | 36 min |
| Jun 15, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay | 38 min |
| Jun 15, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 27 min |
| Jun 15, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Carroll | 52 min |
| Jun 15, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Webster | 21 min |
| Jun 15, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Botetourt, Rockbridge | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | City of Lexington | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | City of Buena Vista | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, Botetourt | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 43 min |
| Jun 15, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Campbell, Halifax, Pittsylvania | 39 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arlington, Clarke, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick, Loudoun and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Brunswick, Buckingham and 45 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arlington, Fairfax, King George, Prince William, Spotsylvania, Stafford and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Brooke, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer and 20 more | 6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.