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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Charleston, WV

June 1, 2004Raleigh County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2004, 6:13 PM EDT for Raleigh County, West Virginia. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2004, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2004, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Raleigh County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 1, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 991 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 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 
WUUS51 KRLX 012213
SVRRLX
WVC081-012300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
613 PM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT...

* AT 608 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 3 MILES EAST OF GAULEY BRIDGE TO 2 MILES
  EAST OF BLAIR...OR FROM 9 MILES NORTH OF FAYETTEVILLE TO 11 MILES
  EAST OF LOGAN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...BEAVER...BECKLEY...
  BRADLEY...COAL CITY...CRAB ORCHARD...DANIELS...MABSCOTT...
  MACARTHUR...PINEY VIEW...PROSPERITY...SHADY SPRING...SOPHIA...
  STANAFORD AND DRY CREEK.

--CALL TO ACTION-- THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

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 3768 8138 3778 8146 3781 8154 3797 8157
          3796 8135 3789 8130 3787 8108 3782 8106
          3783 8096 3771 8084 3771 8097 3766 8104
          3763 8121

$$

SEYMOUR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Wayne	28 min
Jun 1, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Wayne	27 min
Jun 1, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Lincoln, Putnam	44 min
Jun 1, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Kanawha, Roane	50 min
Jun 1, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wirt	24 min
Jun 1, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Clay	44 min
Jun 1, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette, Nicholas	47 min
Jun 1, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Gilmer	28 min
Jun 1, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lewis, Upshur, Webster	50 min
Jun 1, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	33 min
Jun 1, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell, Wyoming	47 min
Jun 1, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.