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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Charleston, WV

July 17, 1986Monongalia County, Preston County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1986, 6:20 PM EDT for Monongalia County, Preston County, West Virginia. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 1986, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 1986, 7:20 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Monongalia County, WV, Preston County, WV

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1743 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

^CRWSPSEKN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - ELKINS, WV
145 PM EDT THU JUL 17 1986

WEATHER RADAR AT 140 PM EDT SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
NORTHEAST MONONGALIA WEST VIRGINIA JUST TO THE EAST AND NORTH OF
MORGANTOWN. THIS STORM WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO NORTHWEST PRESTON
COUNTY.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY RAIN..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL
HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE
SMHELTER..DON'T BE CAUGHT OUTSIDE IN A THUNDERSTORM.

END

GILKERSON

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 2:28 PM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

^CRWSPSEKN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - ELKINS, WV
228 PM EDT THU JUL 17 1986

WEATHER RADAR AT 224 PM EDT CONTINUED TO SHOW A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
OVER NORTHWEST PRESTON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA BETWEEN MASONTOWN AND
MORGANTOWN.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY RAIN..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL
HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. LOCALIZED FLOODING TO POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVY RAIN. IF THREATENING WlEATHER
APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER..DON'T BE CAUGHT OUTSIDE IN A THUNDERSTORM.

END

GILKERSON

Special weather statement, Jul 17, 5:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Preston	45 min
Jul 17, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Preston	45 min
Jul 17, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Grant, Tucker	70 min
Jul 17, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Garrett	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1986 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.