Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Charleston, WV

June 4, 2002Taylor County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 2:28 AM EDT for Taylor County, West Virginia. It was in force for 32 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 4, 2002, 2:28 AM EDT (06:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Taylor County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:32 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 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 1617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 524 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.

814 
WUUS51 KRLX 040628
SVRRLX
WVC091-040700-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
226 AM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 AM EDT...

* AT 220 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLEMINGTON...MOVING EAST AT
  10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...GRAFTON.

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 3945 7994 3929 7992 3924 8014 3935 8020
          3940 8011

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 3, 1:54 PM EDT, 12 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 1:54 PM EDT, 12 hours 34 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
200 PM EDT MON JUNE 3 2002

TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...

MODELS PRETTY CLOSE IN THE MASS FIELDS IN LIFTING A WARM FRONT NORTH
OF THE REGION LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.  MUST MODIFY MODEL
QPF FIELDS TONIGHT AS I BELIEVE A DEVELOPING MCS UP NORTH WILL RIDE
DOWN ALONG LIFTING WARM FRONT.  BEST QPF TONIGHT IS EXPECTED ACROSS
SOUTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.  SO POPS HIGHEST ACROSS
NORTH TONIGHT. FOR TUESDAY INTO THE DAY WEDNESDAY...MORE OF A
SCATTERED DIURNAL CONVECTION SCENARIO IN THE VERY WARM AND MOIST
ATMOSPHERE AS SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL BE WELL NORTH.  WILL NOT JUMP ON
MODELS PULLING UP A SWATH OF QPF FROM THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO
SYSTEM AS MODELS KEEP IT MEANDERING DOWN SOUTH. WILL KEEP LOW POPS
FOR MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING CONVECTION TUESDAY AND
TUESDAY NIGHT.  NEW MODEL RUNS INDICATE COLD FRONT MAY BE A BIT
SLOWER AFFECTING AREA FOR WEDNESDAY...SO WILL KEEP LOW POPS FOR ALL
EXCEPT WEST OF THE OHIO RIVER.  LIKELY POPS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT
AS COLD BEGINS TO MOVE ACROSS SLOWLY.  MOS GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES IN
GOOD AGREEMENT AND WILL FOLLOW CLOSELY.

THURSDAY THROUGH NEXT MONDAY...

AS A RESULT OF DISCUSSION WITH SURROUNDING OFFICES AND LATEST MODEL
DATA...WILL TRIM BACK PRECIP ON THURSDAY.  COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO
PUSH THROUGH CWA A LITTLE QUICKER...AND LEAVE THURSDAY EVE THROUGH
THE WEEKEND DRY.  AS FOR NEXT MONDAY...WILL INTRODUCE POPS ONCE
AGAIN AHEAD OF NEXT COLD FRONT.

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

.END/JMV/KS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants	35 min
Jun 4, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	39 min
Jun 4, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants	34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.