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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Charleston, WV

April 14, 2006Randolph County, Webster County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2006, 12:57 PM EDT for Randolph County, Webster 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: Apr 14, 2006, 12:57 PM EDT (16:57 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2006, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Randolph County, WV, Webster County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -198 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 14, 10:25 AM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 10:25 AM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 14, 4:52 AM EDT, 8 hours 5 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
452 AM EDT FRI APR 14 2006

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-
013>020-024>040-046-047-150900-
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-
452 AM EDT FRI APR 14 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 RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO
THIS EVENING...AS A VERY WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS
SETTLES OVER THE AREA. THE HIGHEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER
WILL BE OVER SOUTHEASTERN OHIO...NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY...AND
WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE MAIN THREATS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND AND
LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS
WEEKEND...MAINLY SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. THE MAIN THREATS WILL
BE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL.

WE WILL ALSO BE MONITORING WHERE HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURS...AS FLOOD
WATCHES MAY BE NEEDED WHERE REPEATED EPISODES OF HEAVY RAINFALL
RAISE THREAT FOR SAID RAINFALL BECOMING EXCESSIVE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

TRM / 29

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 14, 7:40 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 14, 9:28 AM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 14, 12:14 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1214 PM EDT FRI APR 14 2006

WVZ030-039-141645-
LEWIS-UPSHUR-
1214 PM EDT FRI APR 14 2006

HERE IS A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE FOR LEWIS AND UPSHUR COUNTIES...

AT 1214 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE
  HODGESVILLE...GOULD...WHITE OAK...OVERHILL...STONEWALL JACKSON LAKE
  ST AND JANE LEW.

WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL...UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. EXPECT FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN
DO SO SAFELY.

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Special weather statement, Apr 14, 12:51 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1251 PM EDT FRI APR 14 2006

WVZ038-047-141715-
RANDOLPH-WEBSTER-
1251 PM EDT FRI APR 14 2006

HERE IS A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE FOR NORTHERN WEBSTER AND SOUTHERN RANDOLPH...

AT 1251 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY...OR ABOUT 22
MILES SOUTH OF BUCKHANNON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE EDEN...
  HACKER VALLEY AND HOLLY RIVER STATE PARK.

WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND SMALL HAIL...UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES...ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. EXPECT FREQUENT LIGHTNING IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM.

PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	36 min
Apr 14, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	36 min
Apr 14, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan, Mingo	32 min
Apr 14, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler	31 min
Apr 14, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	34 min
Apr 14, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Wood	26 min
Apr 14, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan, Wyoming	39 min
Apr 14, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Harrison	37 min
Apr 14, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette, Nicholas	32 min
Apr 14, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Taylor	23 min
Apr 14, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	23 min
Apr 14, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Upshur	48 min
Apr 14, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Perry	18 min
Apr 14, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2006 Every 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.