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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jackson, KY

July 9, 1992Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1992, 5:46 PM EDT for Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 1992, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1992, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 26 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: 1234 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 7.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KHTS 092149
SVRHTS
WVC099-092215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
546 PM EDT THU JUL 9 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 545 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
IN CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF WAYNE. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM
WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
 
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
CICCONE

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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.