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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Charleston, WV

June 19, 2006Braxton County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2006, 11:03 PM EDT for Braxton County, West Virginia. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2006, 11:03 PM EDT (03:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2006, 11:36 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Braxton County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2006-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 547 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2006-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
547 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 19, 10:59 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 10:59 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 3:00 AM EDT, 20 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
300 AM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-
013>020-024>040-046-047-201000-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-
JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-
WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-
KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-
CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-
RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-
RANDOLPH-
300 AM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...OUT AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT...CROSSING TUESDAY
MORNING.  STORMS SHOULD SLOWLY WEAKEN AFTER SUNSET.  AT THIS
TIME...WE EXPECT THE THREAT FOR HIGH WINDS TO BE GREATER THAN THAT
OF LARGE HAIL WITH ANY STRONG STORMS THAT DEVELOP.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 19, 7:43 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
743 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

OHZ066-067-200030-
MORGAN-PERRY-
743 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

HERE IS A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE FOR PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES...

AT 743 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SHAWNEE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE
  RENDVILLE...NEW STRAITSVILLE...MCCONNELSVILLE...MALTA...HEMLOCK AND
  CORNING.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 8:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
850 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

WVZ013-200115-
LINCOLN-
850 PM EDT MON JUN 19 2006

HERE IS A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE LINCOLN COUNTY...

AT 850 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11
MILES SOUTHEAST OF BARBOURSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE WEST
  HAMLIN AND HAMLIN.

WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 9:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 19, 9:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 8:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln32 min
Jun 19, 9:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha46 min
Jun 20, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMingo29 min
Jun 20, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLogan32 min
Jun 20, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLogan28 min
Jun 20, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone27 min
Jun 20, 5:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence24 min
Jun 20, 5:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.