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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Charleston, WV

May 21, 2001Wood County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 21, 2001, 7:57 PM EDT for Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 33 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: May 21, 2001, 7:57 PM EDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2001, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Wood County, WV

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 21, 8:10 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Wadeville, WV	An F0 tornado occurred across County Route 46 and the North Fork of Lee Creek. Two barns were damaged and a mobile home was destroyed.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 21, 6:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

964 
WFUS51 KRLX 212358
TORRLX
WVC107-220030-
/NEW.KRLX.TO.W.0017.212357-220030/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
757 PM EDT MON MAY 21 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WOOD COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT...

* AT 753 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINERALWELLS...
  OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF PARKERSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

.

<<CALL TO ACTION>> THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET.

<<CALL TO ACTION>> STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3932 8137 3915 8168 3908 8165 3912 8147
          3917 8132 3929 8127

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 12:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	35 min
May 21, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln	25 min
May 21, 7:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Jackson	16 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.