Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Charleston, WV

June 2, 2002Braxton County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2002, 3:51 AM EDT for Braxton County, West Virginia. It was in force for 24 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: Jun 2, 2002, 3:51 AM EDT (07:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2002, 4:15 AM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Braxton County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 2504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 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.

549 
WUUS51 KRLX 020751
SVRRLX
WVC007-020815-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
350 AM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BRAXTON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 415 AM EDT...

* AT 349 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF BURNSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

$$

LAT...LON 3889 8060 3885 8058 3885 8051 3875 8045
          3867 8053 3882 8080 3889 8068

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 2, 3:41 AM EDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:41 AM EDT, 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
340 AM EDT SUN JUNE 2 2002

TODAY AND TONIGHT...
COLD FRONT PUSHES SOUTHWARD TODAY WITH INSTABILITIES BY THIS
AFTERNOON ONLY OVER THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES. RATHER WELL DEFINED
VORTICITY LOBE THEN PUSHES OVER THE REGION TONIGHT. FEEL ANY
PRECIPITATION WOULD BE CONFINED TO THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES...BUT SINCE
PRECIPITATION IS ALREADY IN THE FORECAST AND MODELS HAVE BEEN
PUSHING FRONT TOO FAR SOUTH...WILL LEAVE MINIMUM POP TONIGHT ALL
AREAS.

EXTENDED RANGE (MON-SATURDAY)...OVERALL CONTINUED TREND OF PREVIOUS
FCST.  MODELS SEEM IN GOOD AGREEMENT THRU ABOUT 60 HRS.  THE TIMING
OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE WARM FRONT TO THE NORTH IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT
IN THE NGM/ETA/AVN.  TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS HAVE LEFT 30 POPS IN ACROSS
THE NRN PORTION OF THE CWA FOR MON NIGHT.  WARM AIR SURGES IN BEHIND
THE FRONT AND HAVE RAISED TEMPS A CAT ON TUESDAY IN LINE WITH THE
AVN GUIDANCE.  ALSO WARMED MINS TUES NIGHT AS FRONT REMAINS NORTH
AND WEST OF CWA SO MINS SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO MON NIGHT.

FROM WED ON THE FORECAST IS UNCHANGED AS THE MODEL UNCERTAINTY
CONTINUES.  THE AVN IS STILL THE MOST PROGRESSIVE WITH THE
SOUTHWESTERN TROF AND ENDS UP WITH A POSITIVELY TILTED TROF FROM THE
GREAT LAKES BACK INTO TX.  THE OTHER MODELS...ECMWF AND
CANADIAN...ALONG WITH THE 60 HOUR OF THE ETA/NGM...LEAVE A CUTOFF
TYPE FEATURE OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN US AND ALLOW NRN STREAM ENERGY TO
RUN OVER THE RIDGE THAT IS IN PLACE OVER THE CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEASTERN US.  INSTEAD OF HAVING A FRONT STALL IN THE SW FLOW
ACROSS THE REGION AS THE AVN SUGGEST...A NRN STREAM TROF SWINGS
THROUGH THE MID ATLANTIC STATES...WHICH DRIVES A SURFACE FRONT INTO
THE SOUTHEAST.  HIGH PRESSURE MOVES SOUTH OUT OF CENTRAL CANADA.
THIS WOULD BRING DRIER WEATHER AND COOLER TEMPERATURES.  AT THIS
POINT...WILL LEAVE THIS FOR THE DAY SHIFT AND WILL LET THEM
COORDINATE THIS WITH HPC AND OTHER ERN CLUSTER SITES.

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

.END/RPY/ESS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 2:26 AM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV
226 AM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0220 AM    SHAWNEE                   OH   .88 INCH HAIL
06/02/02   PERRY                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	39 min
Jun 2, 5:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Webster	22 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2002 Every 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.