Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2019
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 216, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2019, 7:06 PM EDT for Logan County, Mingo County, West Virginia. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 31, 2019, 7:06 PM EDT (23:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2019, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Logan County, WV, Mingo County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 1262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Aug 30, 7:39 PM EDT, 23 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 7:39 PM EDT, 23 hours 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 30 min |
| Aug 31, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 58 min |
| Aug 31, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph | 23 min |
| Aug 31, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph | 24 min |
| Aug 31, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Nicholas | 30 min |
| Aug 31, 7:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RLX | Pocahontas | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019
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.