Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Charleston, WV

April 10, 2001McDowell County, Mingo County, Wyoming County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT for McDowell County, Mingo County, Wyoming County, West Virginia. It was in force for 45 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: Apr 10, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 10, 7:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Pineville, 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 nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 225 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1138 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KRLX 102232
SVRCRW
WVC047-059-109-102315-
/NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0034.102230-102315/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
630 PM EDT TUE APR 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MINGO COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  WYOMING COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT...

* AT 621 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF GILBERT CREEK...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...
  WHARNECLIFFE...
  NORTH SPRING...
  ISABAN...

<<CALL TO ACTION>>IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE
WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.

$$

LAT...LON 3733 8162 3755 8153 3764 8203 3756 8206
          3753 8202 3755 8198 3750 8194 3747 8199
          3742 8192

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 Apr 10, 1:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 1:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
155 PM EDT TUE APR 10 2001

INDIANA SHORT STILL PROGGED TO ROLL ACROSS FORECAST AREA THIS
EVENING.  ANALYZED WEAK LOW ON INTERSECTING BOUNDARIES VICINITY CELL
SOUTHERN INDIANA.  EAST WEST BOUNDARY EXTENDS INTO SOUTHERN WV.  IT
IS A WEAK BOUNDARY THAT APPEARS TO HAVE FORMED TODAY AS PEGGED BY 6Z
MESO-ETA.  WITH HIGHER DEW POINTS ARE ALONG AND SOUTH OF THIS
BOUNDARY...FIGURE ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE PROPAGATING ALONG BOUNDARY
AND POSSIBLY EVEN LEAN A LITTLE ESE...AND THUS HEAVIEST QPF WILL
AFFECT SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING.  THUS
LEANING AWAY FROM IDEA OF ISSUING FFA FOR PRIMED AREAS OF SOUTHEAST
OHIO.

WILL MAINTAIN LIKELY POPS TONIGHT WITH BEST CHANCE FOR ANY SVR SOUTH
THIS EVENING.  LOOKS LIKE ACTIVITY SHOULD WIND DOWN LATE TONIGHT AS
SHORT WAVE ROLLS ON THROUGH...ALTHOUGH NGM SUGGEST SECOND WEAK SHORT
AND INSTABILITY AXIS SETTING UP NORTHWEST SOUTHEAST COULD PROLONG OR
RE-INSTIGATE ACTIVITY.

WEDNESDAY WILL SEE A NORTHWARD SURGE OF THE WARM AIR AND ANY
ACTIVITY SHOULD BE MAINLY OF THE DIURNAL VARIETY WITH PLENTY OF
INSTABILITY PRESENT.  POTPOURRI OF CLOUDS AROUND IN THE MORNING
COULD ALSO GIVE RISE TO VARIOUS BOUNDARIES FOR STORMS TO FOCUS ON.

AVN NOW FASTER ON PUSHING FRONT THROUGH...WITH TIMING PUSHED UP TO
EARLY FRIDAY.  AT ANY RATE...FRONT SHOULD BE NEARBY
THURSDAY...WARRANTING AT LEAST HIGH CHANCE POPS.  SHORT PUSHING
FRONT BACK NORTH THROUGH FORECAST AREA LATER SATURDAY SHOWN BY
EUROPEAN MODELS TRACKS WELL SOUTH OF AREA ON AVIATION.  WILL
PROBABLY STICK CLOSE TO CURRENT PACKAGE...WHICH HAS THUNDERSTORMS
THROUGH FRIDAY AND POPS THROUGH SATURDAY...FOLLOWED BY
DRIER...COOLER WEATHER.

NUMBERS GENERALLY BALLPARK...LIKE FWC A LITTLE BETTER IN THE EARLIER
PERIODS...THEN LEAN TOWARD AVN.  POPS CURIOUSLY LOW THURSDAY WITH
FRONT IN VICINITY.  LESS INSTABILITY INDICATED PER CLOUDINESS AND
LESS INFLOW.

.RLX...
WV...NONE.
VA...NONE.
KY...NONE.
OH...NONE.

.END/TRM

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 10, 4:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

OHZ075-102115-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
450 PM EDT TUE APR 10 2001

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM CROSSING THROUGH ATHENS COUNTY...

RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING EASTWARD THROUGH ATHENS
COUNTY. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS
TO 45 MPH...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORM
IS EXPECTED TO REACH THE PLAINS BY 5 PM...AND ATHENS BY 5:10 PM.
H
.END/NMB

Local storm report, Apr 10, 5:44 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
544 PM EDT TUE APR 10 2001

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

0415 PM    PINEVILLE                 WV   1 INCH HAIL
04/10/01   WYOMING                        MARBLE AND QUARTER SIZE
                                          HAIL WITH LIMBS DOWN.

0515 PM    MATEWAN                   WV   1 INCH HAIL
04/10/01   MINGO                          1 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          UNTRAINED SPOTTER AT
                                          MATEWAN.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 9, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Harrison	46 min
Apr 10, 8:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton	26 min
Apr 10, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wyoming	24 min
Apr 10, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wyoming	35 min
Apr 10, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	45 min
Apr 10, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	34 min
Apr 10, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	34 min
Apr 10, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette, Nicholas	57 min
Apr 10, 7:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Mingo	3 hr
Apr 10, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lewis, Upshur	36 min
Apr 10, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Randolph	41 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.