Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2012, 8:29 PM EST for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2012, 8:29 PM EST (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Boone County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Raleigh County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 4:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 432 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 716 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 802 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
233
WUUS51 KRLX 030129
SVRRLX
WVC005-019-039-081-030200-
/O.NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0013.120303T0129Z-120303T0200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
829 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL BOONE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
WESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
SOUTH CENTRAL KANAWHA COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
NORTHWESTERN RALEIGH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 900 PM EST
* AT 826 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES WEST OF BURNWELL TO 15
MILES WEST OF BURNWELL TO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURNWELL...OR ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES EAST OF MADISON TO 10 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF MADISON TO 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MADISON...AND MOVING
EAST AT 50 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
POWELLTON AND HAWKS NEST STATE PARK.
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...THE WEST VIRGINIA
TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 57 AND 74.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
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 3817 8110 3808 8113 3794 8120 3792 8169
3799 8167 3810 8162
TIME...MOT...LOC 0129Z 268DEG 43KT 3803 8157 3798 8160
3792 8163
$$
301 follow-up statement
713
WWUS51 KRLX 030145
SVSRLX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
845 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012
WVC005-030155-
/O.CAN.KRLX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120303T0200Z/
BOONE WV-
845 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL BOONE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST SATURDAY MORNING
FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA.
PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3794 8147 3799 8144 3813 8139 3817 8110
3808 8113 3794 8120
TIME...MOT...LOC 0145Z 268DEG 43KT 3804 8132 3799 8135
3793 8138
$$
WVC019-039-081-030200-
/O.CON.KRLX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-120303T0200Z/
RALEIGH WV-KANAWHA WV-FAYETTE WV-
845 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST
FOR WESTERN FAYETTE...SOUTHEASTERN KANAWHA AND EXTREME NORTHWESTERN
RALEIGH COUNTIES...
AT 840 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM BURNWELL TO DOROTHY...OR
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES WEST OF FAYETTEVILLE TO 18 MILES
WEST OF FAYETTEVILLE TO 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF BECKLEY...MOVING EAST
AT 50 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO HAWKS
NEST STATE PARK
THIS WILL IMPACT THE FOLLOWING INTERSTATE...THE WEST VIRGINIA
TURNPIKE BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 57 AND 74.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST SATURDAY MORNING
FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA 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 3794 8147 3799 8144 3813 8139 3817 8110
3808 8113 3794 8120
TIME...MOT...LOC 0145Z 268DEG 43KT 3804 8132 3799 8135
3793 8138
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 7:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 7:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Kanawha, Lewis and 4 more | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 7:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 7:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 7:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Nicholas, Roane | 16 min |
| Mar 2, 7:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Clay, Fayette, Kanawha and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 8:16 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo and 3 more | 119 min |
| Mar 2, 8:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 8:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph, Webster | 45 min |
| Mar 2, 8:38 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Mingo | 52 min |
| Mar 2, 8:56 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay, Fayette, Kanawha, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 2, 8:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas, Pocahontas | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 9:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan, Mingo, Wyoming | 49 min |
| Mar 2, 9:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RLX | McDowell | 60 min |
| Mar 2, 10:28 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo and 4 more | 5 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.