Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 204
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2002, 4:30 AM EDT for 16 counties in Ohio; Fayette County, Greene County, Washington County, Pennsylvania; 17 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2002, 4:30 AM EDT (08:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2002, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Licking County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Washington County, PA, Barbour County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 6:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 12:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 9:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| May 2, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Cambria, Cumberland and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 6 hr |
| May 1, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | McDowell | 4 hr |
| May 2, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fayette, Greenbrier, Mercer, Monroe, Nicholas, Pendleton and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | McDowell | 7 hr |
| May 2, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 6 hr |
| May 2, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.