Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 5:11 PM EDT for Nicholas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 2, 2002, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2002, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nicholas County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 5:20 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Craigsville, WV | |
| Jul 2, 5:31 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Summersville, WV |
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 nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1023 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1029 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
978 WUUS51 KRLX 022111 SVRRLX WVC067-022200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 510 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NICHOLAS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT... * AT 504 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF CRAIGSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...OPAL...DELPHI...AND CRAIGSVILLE. --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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 4:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 43 min |
| Jul 2, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Kanawha | 40 min |
| Jul 2, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 27 min |
| Jul 2, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan | 35 min |
| Jul 2, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 28 min |
| Jul 2, 7:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.