Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Charleston, WV

August 23, 2001Putnam County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2001, 4:59 PM EDT for Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2001, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Putnam County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 23, 5:20 PM EDT	Hail 1	Paradise, 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -131 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 23, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
325 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2001

ACTIVE EVENING ON TAP AS S/W MOVES ACROSS REGION TONIGHT. THIS S/W
HAS PLENTY OF MOISTURE TO WORK WITH ALONG WITH HEATING THIS
AFTERNOON. MODELS IN AGREEMENT ON FRONT PUSHING SOUTH OF FORECAST
AREA TONIGHT.  AS S/W PASSES OVER REGION AND TURNS UPPER FLOW
TOWARDS NORTHWEST.  WHILE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL BE WITH SOME
THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING THE SOUTHWARD PUSH AND CELL MOVEMENT
SHOULD PREVENT TRAINING.  HIGH BUILDS IN DURING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
BUT NEXT SYSTEM TO PUSH ACROSS REGION BY SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY.
REST OF EXTENDED LOOKS DRY AND COOL THROUGH THURSDAY.

.RLX...
WV...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9PM FOR
     WVZ005>008-013>016-024>028-033>038-046-047.
VA...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9PM FOR VAZ003-004.
KY...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9PM FOR KYZ101>103-105.
OH...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 9PM FOR OHZ086-087.

.END/SIKORA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 23, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0315 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2001

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0313 PM    CLENDENIN                 WV   WIND DAMAGE
08/23/01   KANAWHA                        LARGE BRANCHES BROKEN.
                                          EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0258 PM  AND  0313 PM

Local storm report, Aug 23, 3:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0336 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2001

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0334 PM    BECKLEY                   WV   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/23/01   RALEIGH                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0319 PM  AND  0334 PM

Local storm report, Aug 23, 4:10 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0410 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2001

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0408 PM    OCEANA                    WV   1.25 INCH HAIL
08/23/01   WYOMING                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0353 PM  AND  0408 PM

Local storm report, Aug 23, 4:16 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0416 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2001

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0414 PM    OCEANA                    WV   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/23/01   WYOMING                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0359 PM  AND  0414 PM

Local storm report, Aug 23, 4:53 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
453 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0451 PM    BICKMORE                  WV   1 INCH HAIL
08/23/01   CLAY                           SPOTTER AT BICKMORE POST
                                          OFFICE REPORTED 3/4 TO 1
                                          INCH HAIL 345 TO 4PM.

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, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Nicholas	41 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, 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
Aug 23, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Carter	43 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.