Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2006, 2:12 PM EDT for Doddridge County, Ritchie County, Tyler County, West Virginia. It was in force for 48 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 29, 2006, 2:12 PM EDT (18:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2006, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Doddridge County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Tyler County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 29, 1:49 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 1:49 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 4:09 AM EDT, 10 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 409 AM EDT THU JUN 29 2006 VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-300815- 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- 409 AM EDT THU JUN 29 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS TODAY EAST OF THE OHIO RIVER AND SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HAIL...ON THE ORDER OF PENNY TO QUARTER SIZE DURING THE LATE MORNING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-300815- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH- 409 AM EDT THU JUN 29 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. 29
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Ritchie | 25 min |
| Jun 29, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Ritchie | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 53 min |
| Jun 29, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lewis | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Upshur | 47 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.