Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Charleston, WV

April 22, 2005Gilmer County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2005, 1:44 PM EDT for Gilmer County, West Virginia. It was in force for 23 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: Apr 22, 2005, 1:44 PM EDT (17:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2005, 2:07 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gilmer County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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 nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 842 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KRLX 221744
SVRRLX
WVC021-221800-
/O.NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0013.050422T1744Z-050422T1800Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
144 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GILMER COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 141 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CEDAR CREEK STATE PARK...OR 6 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF GLENVILLE...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GLENVILLE...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND DEADLY CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 3890 8105 3876 8090 3892 8064 3910 8079

$$

09

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KRLX 221807
SVSRLX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
205 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2005

WVC021-221815-
/O.EXP.KRLX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050422T1800Z/
GILMER WV-
205 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GILMER COUNTY EXPIRED AT 200
PM EDT...

AT 2 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
HAD WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS.  HOWEVER...SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN 
AND GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.   


LAT...LON 3890 8105 3876 8090 3892 8064 3910 8079

$$

JSH

09

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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.