Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 580
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 14, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 39 counties
Allegany County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Belmont County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Noble County, OH, Washington County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Barbour County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 57 min |
| Jul 14, 4:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Indiana, Westmoreland | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Guernsey, Muskingum | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1313 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles, Frederick and 6 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 14, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Butler, Carroll and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Fairfield and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo and 2 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2000
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.