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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Charleston, WV

June 20, 20084 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2008, 7:19 PM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 26 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 20, 2008, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2008, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Doddridge County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Tyler County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 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 Jun 20, 6:30 PM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 6:30 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 6:36 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 20, 4:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
436 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2008

OHZ085-086-WVZ007-202100-
GALLIA-MASON-MEIGS-
436 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2008

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN GALLIA...NORTHERN
MASON AND SOUTHWESTERN MEIGS COUNTIES...

AT 431 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF RIO GRANDE...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR KYGER AROUND 445 PM...CHESHIRE AROUND 450
PM...LAKIN AROUND 455 PM AND MASON AROUND 500 PM.

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

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 4:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
452 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0445 PM     HAIL             GLENVILLE               38.92N 80.82W
06/20/2008  U0.88 INCH       GILMER             WV   PUBLIC

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 4:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
455 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0451 PM     HAIL             GLENVILLE               38.92N 80.82W
06/20/2008  U0.75 INCH       GILMER             WV   PUBLIC

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 5:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 5:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 20, 7:18 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam	26 min
Jun 20, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Roane	47 min
Jun 20, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Clay	46 min
Jun 20, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer	49 min
Jun 20, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Putnam	28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.