Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 8:40 PM EDT for Ritchie County, Wirt County, West Virginia. It was in force for 35 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, 8:40 PM EDT (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ritchie County, WV, Wirt County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 27, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 27, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 985 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS51 KRLX 280040
TORRLX
WVC085-105-280115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
838 PM EDT THU MAY 27 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
RITCHIE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
WIRT COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 915 PM EDT...
* AT 834 PM EDT...POLICE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD AROUND PALASTINE
MOVING EAST AT 30 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 3910 8111 3906 8101 3904 8110 3905 8115
3896 8126 3909 8148 3920 8128
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 42 min |
| May 27, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer | 40 min |
| May 27, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 37 min |
| May 27, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 43 min |
| May 27, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Webster | 47 min |
| May 27, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer | 34 min |
| May 27, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 41 min |
| May 27, 9:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 3 hr |
| May 27, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph | 44 min |
| May 27, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 40 min |
| May 27, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 36 min |
| May 27, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 33 min |
| May 27, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 43 min |
| May 27, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 35 min |
| May 27, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 58 min |
| May 27, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 39 min |
| May 28, 2:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 39 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.