Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2002, 12:52 PM EDT for Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2002, 12:52 PM EDT (16:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2002, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Upshur County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 637 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KRLX 121652 SVRRLX WVC097-121730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1251 PM EDT SUN MAY 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... UPSHUR COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 130 PM EDT... * AT 1248 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUCKHANNON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STROM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND VERY STRONG GUSTY WINDS. . --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...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
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 May 12, 11:31 AM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 11:31 AM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1100 AM EDT SUN MAY 12 2002 ...UPDATED AFD FOR BOTTOM ZONE NUMBERS..NOT COUNTY..PROGRAM GLICH. CURRENT PACKAGE OK FOR THE MOST PART. UPDATED ZONES FOR SVR TSTM WATCH FOR THIS AFT. INCR POPS TO REFLECT THIS AND PUT SVR/HVY R IN WATCH ZONES. TOOK PRECIP OUT ON THUR AND PUT IN ON FRI NIGHT. .RLX... WV...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 400 PM EDT SUNDAY FOR ZONES WVZ009...WVZ010...WVZ011. VA...NONE. KY...NONE. OH...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 400 PM EDT SUNDAY FOR ZONES OHZ066...OHZ067...OHZ075...OHZ076...OHZ083>085. .END/SIKORA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 12, 12:30 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
WVZ028-030-039-121700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1230 PM EDT SUN MAY 12 2002 AT 1230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED...13 MILES NORTHEAST OF SUTTON...MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS WILL CARRY IT INTO SOUTHERN LEWIS AND UPSHUR COUNTIES BETWEEN 1230 AND 1 PM. RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS. PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.