Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2012, 5:55 PM EDT for Buchanan County, Virginia; McDowell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 35 min. 5 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
- Jun 30, 2012, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2012, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Buchanan County, VA, McDowell County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 6:00 PM EDT | HAIL 0.7 | Hurley, VA | |
| Jun 30, 6:05 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Hurley, VA | |
| Jun 30, 6:07 PM EDT | HAIL 0.5 | Hurley, VA | EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN 06:10 PM 06/30/2012 |
| Jun 30, 6:15 PM EDT | HAIL 0.7 | Hurley, VA | |
| Jun 30, 6:35 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Hurley, VA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 656 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS51 KRLX 302155
SVRRLX
VAC027-WVC047-302230-
/O.NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0079.120630T2155Z-120630T2230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
555 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTY IN VIRGINIA...
NORTHWESTERN MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 554 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
BIG ROCK...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRUNDY...AND MOVING EAST AT 25
MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
ROSEANN...HURLEY AND PANTHER..
.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO FALL FROM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...AND
WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES
AND SMALL STREAMS.
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 3733 8226 3734 8226 3752 8201 3753 8195
3751 8194 3751 8193 3753 8191 3752 8190
3755 8184 3754 8183 3732 8183
TIME...MOT...LOC 2155Z 269DEG 22KT 3739 8216
$$
281 follow-up statement
067
WWUS51 KRLX 302216
SVSRLX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
616 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2012
VAC027-WVC047-302230-
/O.CON.KRLX.SV.W.0079.000000T0000Z-120630T2230Z/
BUCHANAN VA-MCDOWELL WV-
616 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN MCDOWELL AND NORTHERN BUCHANAN COUNTIES...
AT 612 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR HURLEY...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRUNDY...MOVING EAST AT
25 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PANTHER
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO FALL FROM THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...AND
WILL CAUSE WATER TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES
AND SMALL STREAMS.
&&
PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3733 8226 3734 8226 3752 8201 3753 8195
3751 8194 3751 8193 3752 8191 3752 8183
3732 8183
TIME...MOT...LOC 2216Z 269DEG 22KT 3739 8200
$$
28The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 68 min |
| Jun 29, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 58 min |
| Jun 30, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Buchanan, Dickenson | 47 min |
| Jun 30, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 47 min |
| Jun 30, 7:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RLX | Buchanan | 118 min |
| Jun 30, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 38 min |
| Jun 30, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 32 min |
| Jun 30, 3:18 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | RLX | Boone, Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, Mason and 3 more | 27 hr |
| Jun 30, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Raleigh, Wyoming | 36 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.