Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 681
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 19, 2001, 3:15 PM EDT for Martin County, Kentucky; Allegany County, Garrett County, Maryland; 40 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2001, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Martin County, KY, Allegany County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Grant County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Hardy | 23 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Marshall, Ohio | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Maryland, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.