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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Charleston, WV

May 2, 2002Gilmer County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2002, 2:06 AM EDT for Gilmer 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: May 2, 2002, 2:06 AM EDT (06:06 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2002, 2:30 AM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Gilmer County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 2247 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 402 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.

000 
WFUS51 KRLX 020606
TORRLX
WVC021-020630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
206 AM EDT THU MAY 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GILMER COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 230 AM EDT...

* AT 204 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLENVILLE...
  MOVING EAST AT 75 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE GLENVILLE.

--CALL TO ACTION-- THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET.

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 3902 8073 3890 8063 3884 8078 3884 8094
          3898 8096

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 1:00 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Raleigh	30 min
May 2, 1:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mason	26 min
May 2, 11:38 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan	37 min
May 2, 11:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	31 min
May 2, 11:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone	40 min
May 2, 11:55 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Logan, Mingo	3 hr
May 2, 12:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	23 min
May 2, 1:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell	3 hr
May 2, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	37 min
May 2, 3:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Logan, Mingo	3 hr
May 2, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	46 min
May 2, 4:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell	3 hr
May 2, 6:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Logan, Mingo	3 hr
May 2, 7:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell	6 hr

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.