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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2004, 2:42 PM EDT for Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 33 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
- May 25, 2004, 2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2004, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 996 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
100 WUUS51 KRLX 251842 SVRRLX WVC099-251915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 242 PM EDT TUE MAY 25 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 315 PM EDT... * AT 237 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER KIAHSVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARTS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...EAST LYNN LAKE. --CALL TO ACTION-- IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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 3821 8241 3802 8243 3802 8219 3819 8222 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 26 min |
| May 25, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 23 min |
| May 25, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 32 min |
| May 25, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan | 30 min |
| May 25, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 23 min |
| May 25, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 31 min |
| May 25, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 33 min |
| May 25, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 30 min |
| May 25, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph | 34 min |
| May 25, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 23 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2004Every 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.