Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Charleston, WV

April 10, 2001Lewis County, Upshur County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 2001, 7:24 PM EDT for Lewis County, Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 36 min. 2 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: Apr 10, 2001, 7:24 PM EDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lewis County, WV, Upshur County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 10, 7:25 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Walkersville, WV
Apr 10, 7:30 PM EDT	Hail 1	Rock Cave, WV	A few vehicles were dented.

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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KRLX 102324
SVRCRW
WVC041-097-110000-
/NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0037.102324-110000/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  UPSHUR COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  SOUTHERN LEWIS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT...

* AT 722 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROCK CAVE...MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

.

<<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 3890 8014 3900 8050 3886 8056 3875 8030
          3875 8014 3883 8010

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, 5 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 1:55 PM EDT, 5 hours 29 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, 2 hours 34 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, 1 hour 40 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, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell, Mingo, Wyoming	45 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, 7:49 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.