Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Charleston, WV

June 5, 2001Boone County, Raleigh County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2001, 3:45 PM EDT for Boone County, Raleigh County, West Virginia. It was in force for 45 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: Jun 5, 2001, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Boone County, WV, Raleigh County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 5, 4:00 PM EDT	Hail 1	Whitesville, WV
Jun 5, 4:00 PM EDT	Hail 1.5	Eunice, 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 528 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 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.

402 
WUUS51 KRLX 051946
SVRRLX
WVC005-081-052030-
/NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0105.051945-052030/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
345 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BOONE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  RALEIGH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT...

* AT 343 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...BECKLEY. LARGE HAIL IS
  LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE
A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3771 8121 3787 8113 3788 8129 3796 8133
          3797 8147 3801 8146 3804 8163 3788 8170

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 Jun 5, 3:25 PM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:25 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
325 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001

WARM FRONT LIFTING SLOWLY NORTH THROUGH CWA THIS PM. NOW INTO SE OH
AND NRN WV. VORT MAX LIFTING ACROSS ERN TN INT SE KY EVIDENT IN SAT
PIS AND SOME DEVELOPING SHWRS/TSTMS. NARROW E/W BAND TSTMS HAS
DEVELOPED FROM ERN KY INTO WRN WV SOUTH OF HTS...CRW LAST HR. NO
WIDESPREAD PCPN LOOKS TO BE DEVELOPING THIS PM.

MODELS ALL IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT STALLING FRONT ACROSS SE OH AND
NRN WV. SEVERAL DISTURBANCES WILL TRACK WEST TO EAST ACROSS AREA
THIGGERING SHWRS/TSTMS. PWS HIGH...1.5 TO 1.7...SO LOCALLY HEAVY
DOWNPOURS A GOOD POSSIBILITY. DO NOT SEE ANY CONCENTRATED HEAVY PCPN
FOR TONIGHT....HOWEVER WED MAY BE DIFFERRENT AS STRONG SHORT WAVE
AND SURFACE LOW PRES PUSH INTO THE CWA. WILL GO WITH CHANCE POPS IN
FAR S AND SE TONIGHT...ELSEWHERE LIKELY POPS.

FOR WED AND WED NIGHT...LIKELY OR CAT POPS AS THE PROPER INGREDIENTS
BEGIN TO COME TOGETHER. HIGH PRESS OVER GREAT LAKES NOT VERY STRONG
ONTHU...BUT IT SHOULD HAVE ENUF MOMENTUM TO PUSH FRONT TO OUR WOUTH
BY THU EVENING.

NGM MOS GUID TEMPS LOOK IN LINE.

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

.END / ZINN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 9:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Randolph	25 min
Jun 5, 3:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wayne	3 hr
Jun 5, 4:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Lincoln	3 hr
Jun 5, 4:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Raleigh	3 hr
Jun 5, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	38 min
Jun 5, 6:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam	3 hr
Jun 5, 7:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Clay, Nicholas	3 hr

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.