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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV

May 27, 2004Roane County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 7:41 PM EDT for Roane County, West Virginia. It was in force for 34 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 27, 2004, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Roane County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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.

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 27, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

561 
WFUS51 KRLX 272341
TORRLX
WVC087-280015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
741 PM EDT THU MAY 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT...

* AT 738 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LEROY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SPENCER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

.

--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 3893 8151 3894 8145 3890 8137 3891 8128
          3881 8122 3884 8148 3894 8158 3898 8155

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Tyler	37 min
May 27, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	24 min
May 27, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Roane, Wirt	37 min
May 27, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Tyler	29 min
May 27, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Tyler	43 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.