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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2001, 5:40 PM EDT for Boyd County, Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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 30, 2001, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2001, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1069 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
112 WUUS51 KRLX 302141 SVRRLX KYC019-089-302215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV ISSUED BY NWS JACKSON KY 540 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENUP COUNTY BOYD COUNTY * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 540 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTWOOD...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTWOOD... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RUSSELL AROUND 545 PM EDT WESTWOOD AROUND 555 PM EDT ASHLAND AROUND 600 PM EDT CATLETTSBURG AROUND 610 PM EDT THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE JACKSON WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. $$ HEINLEIN
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 30, 3:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV ISSUED BY NWS BLACKSBURG VA 305 PM EDT THU AUG 30 2001 ...HARDWARE PROBLEMS CONTINUE AT WFO RLX...THIS AFTERNOON FCST PACKAGE PROVIDED BY WFO RNK... BNDRY HAS LIFTED TO THE NORTH OF RLX CWA BUT CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY SO FAR LIMITED ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF FROM LINGERING MORNING STRATUS. ALSO S/WV LIFTING OUT OF TN HELPING TO DESTABLIZE AMS ACROSS SRN PORTIONS. MDLS KEEP THE S/WV TO THE SOUTH THIS EVE...AND ASSOC BETTER RH FIELDS...SO WILL KEEP A LOW CHC FOR THIS EVE ACROSS SOUTHERN TWO THIRDS...SLIGHT CHC ELSEWHERE. MEANWHILE...SIGNIFICANT FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE WEST AND MAY GET SOME HIGH CLOUDS TOWARD MORNING FROM CONVECTION TO THE WEST...AND BY AFTERNOON CONVECTION ALONG AND AHEAD OF FRONT EXPECTED TO MOVE IN FROM THE WEST..AS WELL AS SCT DEVELOPMENT WELL OUT AHEAD. GOES SOUNDER SHOWING PWS OVR 1.5 INCHES STARTING TO MOVE IN ALREADY...AND GOOD LOW LVL JET AHEAD OF FRNT STARTING TO HINT OF HVY RAIN AND BACK BLDG PRBLMS POTENTIALL ON FRIDAY. SAVING GRACE IS THAT FRONT SHOULD BE MVG FAIRLY QUICKLY. WILL LET WFO RLX MAKE ANY DECISIONS ABOUT WATCHES OVERNIGHT TONIGHT THOUGH. FOR FRIDAY...POPS CATEGORICAL IN WEST AND LIKELY IN EAST...DOWN TO GOOD CHC OVERNIGHT AND ENDING IN THE WEST...WITH LIKELY IN THE EAST...BUT STILL ENDING LATE. OVERALL..MDLS TRENDING FASTER WITH FRONT NOW...BUT PREFER SLIGHTLY SLOWER AVN THROUGH SAT MORNING. RIGHT NOW...LOOKS LIKE ALL SHOWERS WILL BE EAST OF THE CWA BY SATURDAY MORNING...BUT MAY KEEP A SILENT 20 IN THE MTNS FOR THE CCF IN CASE FRONT SLOWS. WONT STRAY TOO FAR FROM MOS GUIDANCE ON TEMPS...LEANING TO SLIGHTLY COOLER MAV NUMBERS. EXTENDED...DRY SFC HIGH BUILDS IN FOR WEEKEND...WITH COOL OVERNIGHT LOWS. WILL KEEP PRECIP OUT THROUGH TUES AS TRENDS SEEMS TO BE TO KEEP MOISTURE SUPRESSED FURTHER TO THE SOUTH...BUT RETURN FLOW AND POSSIBLY SOME OVERUNNING BY WED...AND THEN BACK INTO DEEPER MSTR FOR THURS. .RLX... WV...NONE. VA...NONE. KY...NONE. OH...NONE. .END/SK
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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.