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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Charleston, WV

May 13, 2005Raleigh County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2005, 4:20 PM EDT for Raleigh County, West Virginia. It was in force for 17 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 13, 2005, 4:20 PM EDT (20:20 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2005, 4:37 PM EDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Raleigh County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 468 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KRLX 132020
SVRRLX
WVC081-132045-
/O.NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0021.050513T2020Z-050513T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
420 PM EDT FRI MAY 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 414 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  EXTREME NORTHWESTERN RALEIGH COUNTY...OR 16 MILES NORTH OF
  OCEANA...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN RALEIGH COUNTY...

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 3796 8162 3786 8156 3793 8130 3805 8137

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KRLX 132037
SVSRLX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
436 PM EDT FRI MAY 13 2005

WVC081-132046-
/O.CAN.KRLX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050513T2045Z/
RALEIGH WV-
436 PM EDT FRI MAY 13 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN RALEIGH COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS 
AND HAS MOVED NORTHEAST OUT OF THE COUNTY.  THEREFORE...THE STORM NO 
LONGER POSES A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3796 8162 3786 8156 3793 8130 3805 8137

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone	36 min
May 13, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton	28 min
May 13, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gilmer	20 min
May 13, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	44 min
May 13, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	34 min
May 13, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln, Logan	45 min
May 13, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.