Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2001, 7:26 PM EDT for Raleigh County, West Virginia. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2001, 7:26 PM EDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Raleigh County, WV
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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
185 WUUS51 KRLX 232327 SVRRLX WVC047-081-109-240000- /NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0169.232326-240000/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 726 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... RALEIGH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... WYOMING COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 800 PM EDT... * AT 717 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF MULLENS TO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRADSHAW...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...WELCH AND PINEVILLE. --CALL TO ACTION--THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. 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 3774 8129 3735 8200 3725 8130 3763 8059
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, 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 |
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.