Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2008, 7:50 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Wayne County, West Virginia; Boyd County, Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was in force for 55 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
- Jul 20, 2008, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2008, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Boyd County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lincoln County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 525 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 Jul 20, 7:42 PM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 7:42 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1020 AM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 KYZ105-VAZ003-004-WVZ005-013>016-018-024>030-033>040-046-047-210830- LAWRENCE KY-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE- CALHOUN-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-MCDOWELL-WYOMING- RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 1020 AM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH MONDAY. KYZ101>103-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-WVZ006>011-017-019-020-031-032- 210830- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON OH-VINTON- MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS- TYLER-WIRT-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-HARRISON-TAYLOR- 1020 AM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER MONDAY WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THROUGH MONDAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 629 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 WVZ006-013>015-026-202330- BOONE-CABELL-KANAWHA-LINCOLN-PUTNAM- 629 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL KANAWHA...NORTHERN BOONE...NORTHERN LINCOLN...SOUTHEASTERN CABELL AND SOUTHERN PUTNAM COUNTIES... AT 624 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF HAMLIN...MOVING EAST AT 28 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING FROM THESE STORMS. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR SWEETLAND...AND TEAYS VALLEY AROUND 635 PM...GRIFFITHSVILLE AROUND 640 PM...YAWKEY...AND POCA AROUND 645 PM...TORNADO...ST. ALBANS...NITRO...AND SOD AROUND 655 PM. PLEASE REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. 08
Local storm report, Jul 20, 6:54 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
654 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0636 PM TSTM WND DMG GRAFTON 39.36N 79.99W
07/20/2008 TAYLOR WV PUBLIC
&&
NNNNLocal storm report, Jul 20, 6:56 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
656 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0642 PM HAIL BRIDGEPORT 39.29N 80.23W
07/20/2008 U0.88 INCH HARRISON WV PUBLIC
&&
NNNNLocal storm report, Jul 20, 7:33 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
733 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0730 PM TSTM WND DMG ASHLAND 38.42N 82.72W
07/20/2008 BOYD KY PUBLIC
LARGE BRANCHES BROKEN.
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NNNNLocal storm report, Jul 20, 7:40 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 20, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison, Taylor, Tyler | 54 min |
| Jul 20, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Taylor | 54 min |
| Jul 20, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane | 65 min |
| Jul 20, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas | 38 min |
| Jul 20, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 88 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2008Every 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.