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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Charleston, WV

July 26, 1986Webster County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1986, 5:10 PM EDT for Webster County, West Virginia. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 1986, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 1986, 5:50 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Webster 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

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 2292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2

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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 26, 3:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

^CRWSPSHTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
310 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN OHIO...

AT 330 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED OVER
NORTHESST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN OHIO MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
A STRONG STORM IN LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO WILL CROSS GALLIA COUNTY
INTO MASON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA BY 430 PM. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
WAS WEAKENING IN LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY. THIS STORM WILL CROSS WAYNE
COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA BY 430 PM. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS
DEVELOPING IN WEST CARTER COUNTY KENTUCKY.

STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE
HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY 0THESE STORMS.

PLEASE STAY TUNDED TO RADIO OR TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE
HANEY

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 4:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
410 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986

THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL IN THE GROWING STAGE OVER WEST VIRGINIA AND
SCATTERED OVER THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES.

THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN MASON COUNTY..NORTHERN CALHOUN
COUNTY..AND NORTHERN CLAY TO SOUTHERN BRAXTON COUNTY.

RESIDENTS OF THESE COUNTIES AND NEIGHBORING COUNTIES TO THEIR EAST
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STRONG STO`RM ACTIVITY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS..VERY HEAVY RAIN..AND PROBABLY HAIL ALONG WITH
VIVID LIGHTNING DISPLAYS.

END/BRUMER

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 4:33 PM EDT, 37 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 26, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Jackson, Roane	75 min
Jul 26, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gilmer	75 min
Jul 26, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Webster	45 min
Jul 26, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Clay	35 min
Jul 25, 9:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Marion	63 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.