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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2009, 4:53 PM EDT for 6 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 52 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 9, 2009, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2009, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Barbour County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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 9, 4:10 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 4:10 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 249 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 VAZ003-004-WVZ024>026-033>036-101900- DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH- FAYETTE- 249 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVE MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY MAY BE AT RISK FOR FLOODING DUE TO HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KYZ101>103-105-OHZ075-076-083>087-WVZ005>011-013>020-027>032-037>040- 046-047-101900- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON OH-VINTON- MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD- PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE- DODDRIDGE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER- UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 249 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 356 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. ALSO...LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVE MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY MAY BE AT RISK FOR FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ066-067-101900- PERRY-MORGAN- 249 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. ALSO...LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVE MULTIPLE ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY MAY BE AT RISK FOR FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 9, 2:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
249 PM EDT TUE JUN 9 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0231 PM HAIL JANE LEW 39.12N 80.44W
06/09/2009 U1.00 INCH LEWIS WV PUBLIC
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NNNNLocal storm report, Jun 9, 3:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Taylor | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 24 min |
| Jun 9, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor, Upshur | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Randolph, Taylor and 1 more | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Lewis, Randolph, Upshur | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Nicholas, Randolph, Webster | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison, Tyler | 39 min |
| Jun 9, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Taylor, Tyler and 1 more | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Jackson, Roane, Wirt | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Perry | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Vinton | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.