Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 295
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2004, 2:50 PM EDT for 24 counties in Kentucky; 26 counties in Virginia; 44 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2004, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 94 counties
Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bland County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Norton, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Craig County, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Giles County, VA, Highland County, VA, Lee County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Grant County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Jefferson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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.
Warnings issued inside it
24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 42 min |
| May 26, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 43 min |
| May 26, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 40 min |
| May 26, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 47 min |
| May 26, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Laurel | 15 min |
| May 26, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox | 44 min |
| May 26, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell | 47 min |
| May 26, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 42 min |
| May 26, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Highland | 38 min |
| May 26, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher | 44 min |
| May 26, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 44 min |
| May 26, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Wise, City of Norton | 39 min |
| May 26, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Harlan | 22 min |
| May 26, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer | 36 min |
| May 26, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 45 min |
| May 26, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Bland | 22 min |
| May 26, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 48 min |
| May 26, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Lee, Scott | 37 min |
| May 26, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 37 min |
| May 26, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 51 min |
| May 26, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany, City of Covington | 16 min |
| May 26, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles | 43 min |
| May 26, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Washington, City of Bristol | 57 min |
| May 26, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell | 41 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 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 25, 8:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 61 more | 92 min |
| May 26, 9:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McLean, Meade and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 11:50 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Bath and 90 more | 85 min |
| May 26, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Boone and 83 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 1:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott, Knox and 5 more | 97 min |
| May 26, 2:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken | 8 hr |
| May 26, 2:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Boone and 83 more | 87 min |
| May 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Butler, Caldwell and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 4:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken | 88 min |
| May 26, 6:27 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Butler, Caldwell and 31 more | 93 min |
| May 26, 6:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman | 93 min |
| May 25, 9:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Accomack, Essex, King and Queen, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond and 1 more | 55 min |
| May 26, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington, Augusta and 69 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 12:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette and 26 more | 95 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.