Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 372
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 1, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 62 counties
Pike County, KY, Allegany County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Greene County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, City of Covington, VA, Craig County, VA, Giles County, VA, Highland County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton 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, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Morgan County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Preston 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, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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
16 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Roane | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Mifflin | 52 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, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Greenbrier | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 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 | Buchanan | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Highland | 65 min |
| Jun 1, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Mercer | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Giles, Pulaski, Wythe | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Montgomery, City of Radford | 48 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Ballard, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd and 70 more | 60 min |
| Jun 1, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Caldwell, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 1, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 90 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 89 more | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 7:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pike | 66 min |
| Jun 1, 11:11 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll and 17 more | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll and 17 more | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Bucks and 37 more | 6 hr |
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.