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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Charleston, WV

August 11, 1992Braxton County, Webster County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1992, 5:04 PM EDT for Braxton County, Webster County, West Virginia. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 11, 1992, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 1992, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Braxton County, WV, Webster County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 796 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Aug 11, 3:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

WVZ005-009-010-MDZ008-009-112000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV
300 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT
THIS EVENING FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA AND
WESTERN MARYLAND...

WEATHER RADAR AT 255 PM EDT INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM DODDRIDGE COUNTY EAST ACROSS HARRISON
THRU TAYLOR INTO SOUTHERN PRESTON AND NORTHERN TUCKER COUNTIES OF
WEST VIRGINIA ON EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND THRU
MINERAL AND HAMPSHIRE COUNTIES IN THE POTOMAC HIGHLANDS OF WEST
VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER TAYLOR...PRESTON AND
HAMPSHIRE COUNTIES OF WEST VIRIGNIA. THIS LINE IS MOVING SLOWLY
SOUTHEAST AND WILL AFFECT THE AREA ALONG A LINE FROM WESTON TO
PHILIPPI TO PARSONS ON EAST TO WARDENSVILLE DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

HEAVY RAINS AND PEA SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS.
HOWEVER, STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY
RAINS ARE POSSIBLE. FLOODING TO LOW-LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS
COULD OCCUR IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAINS ALONG WITH REDUCED DRIVING
VISIBILITIES.

STAY ALERT AND MOVE INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY
AWAY FROM ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES DURING PERIODS OF LIGHNTING. DO NOT
DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER FLOWING ACROSS OR COVERING ROADWAYS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

END

GILKERSON

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 3:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

WVZ005-009-112045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV
344 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF WEST
VIRGINIA...

WEATHER RADAR AT 340 PM INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS NORTHER LEWIS...SOUTHERN HARRISON...BARBOUR AND TUCKER COUNTIES
OF WEST VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST NORTHEAST OF PHILIPPI
IN BARBOUR COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARD TUCKER COUNTY. SEVERAL
REPORTS OF OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM THESE STORMS
ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES. TWO PEOPLE IN NORTHERN WEST
VIRGINIA HAVE BEEN STRUCK WITH LIGHTNING.

PERSONS ACROSS THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES AND UPSHUR AND RANDOLPH
COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT TO STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...VERY
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS AS THESE STORMS MOVE SLOWLY
SOUTHEAST. HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE FLOODING TO SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS
AND LOW-LYING AREAS.

END

GILKERSON

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 4:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 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
Aug 11, 12:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Monongalia, Preston	68 min
Aug 11, 3:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Preston	57 min
Aug 11, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan	66 min
Aug 11, 7:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Boone	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.