Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2010, 2:51 PM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2010, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2010, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Boone County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:01 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | North Matewan, WV | |
| May 14, 3:40 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | S Gilbert, WV | 1 INCH HAIL REPORTED IN NORTH SPRING IN WYOMING COUNTY. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 707 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
837
WUUS51 KRLX 141851
SVRRLX
WVC005-045-059-109-141930-
/O.NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0021.100514T1851Z-100514T1930Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
251 PM EDT FRI MAY 14 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN BOONE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
SOUTHERN LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
SOUTHERN MINGO COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
NORTHWESTERN WYOMING COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 330 PM EDT
* AT 246 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
DELBARTON...OR NEAR WILLIAMSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
HINCH...MAN...MALLORY AND OCEANA.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA. A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA.
&&
LAT...LON 3763 8219 3762 8221 3763 8223 3765 8224
3775 8226 3787 8156 3783 8156 3783 8153
3763 8149 3758 8214
TIME...MOT...LOC 1851Z 261DEG 30KT 3767 8213
$$
121 follow-up statement
449
WWUS51 KRLX 141907
SVSRLX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
307 PM EDT FRI MAY 14 2010
WVC005-045-059-109-141930-
/O.CON.KRLX.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100514T1930Z/
LOGAN WV-WYOMING WV-MINGO WV-BOONE WV-
307 PM EDT FRI MAY 14 2010
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN BOONE...SOUTHERN MINGO...NORTHWESTERN WYOMING AND
SOUTHERN LOGAN COUNTIES...
AT 303 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR VARNEY...OR 10 MILES EAST OF WILLIAMSON...MOVING EAST AT
35 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PIE...
HINCH...SARAH ANN...CHAUNCEY...SWITZER...HAMPDEN...GILBERT...BRUNO...
MAN...COAL MOUNTAIN...CLEAR FORK...CYCLONE...KOPPERSTON...OCEANA...
MALLORY AND AMHERSTDALE
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA. A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA.
&&
PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3763 8219 3762 8221 3763 8223 3775 8226
3787 8157 3783 8156 3783 8153 3763 8149
3758 8214
TIME...MOT...LOC 1907Z 261DEG 30KT 3767 8206
$$
21The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo, Wyoming | 35 min |
| May 14, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Lewis, Upshur | 39 min |
| May 14, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Raleigh, Wyoming | 32 min |
| May 14, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 43 min |
| May 14, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 56 min |
| May 14, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Putnam, Roane | 63 min |
| May 14, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 85 min |
| May 14, 4:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Jackson, Roane | 26 min |
| May 14, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason, Putnam | 43 min |
| May 14, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 31 min |
| May 14, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison, Taylor, Tyler | 55 min |
| May 14, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Nicholas, Roane, Webster | 61 min |
| May 14, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 24 min |
| May 14, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne | 81 min |
| May 14, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 40 min |
| May 14, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane | 45 min |
| May 14, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Logan, Wayne | 72 min |
| May 14, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 46 min |
| May 14, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln | 73 min |
| May 14, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Roane, Webster | 31 min |
| May 14, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 62 min |
| May 14, 6:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 116 min |
| May 14, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison, Tyler | 17 min |
| May 14, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 68 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.