Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Charleston, WV

August 23, 2001Clay County, Nicholas County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2001, 3:04 PM EDT for Clay County, Nicholas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 41 min. 3 reports 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: Aug 23, 2001, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2001, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clay County, WV, Nicholas County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 23, 3:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Dille, WV	A few large trees were knocked down.
Aug 23, 3:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Birch River, WV	Trees and large branches were blown down.
Aug 23, 3:52 PM EDT	Hail 1	Bickmore, WV

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 23, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -205 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

818 
WUUS51 KRLX 231904
SVRRLX
WVC015-067-231945-
/NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0157.231904-231945/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
304 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NICHOLAS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  CLAY COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT...

* AT 256 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF BIRCH RIVER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...CRAIGSVILLE.

--CALL TO ACTION--IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE
A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

$$

LAT...LON 3824 8062 3834 8058 3839 8066 3844 8065
          3850 8069 3852 8080 3851 8087 3855 8091
          3857 8102 3840 8109

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay	31 min
Aug 23, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Raleigh	40 min
Aug 23, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan	35 min
Aug 23, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	43 min
Aug 23, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	35 min
Aug 23, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Nicholas	29 min
Aug 23, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wyoming	32 min
Aug 23, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wyoming	30 min
Aug 23, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Putnam	31 min
Aug 23, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Kanawha	36 min
Aug 23, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton	31 min
Aug 23, 6:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Randolph	3 hr
Aug 23, 6:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Calhoun	3 hr
Aug 23, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	34 min
Aug 23, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.