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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Charleston, WV

July 5, 19924 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1992, 7:30 PM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1992, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1992, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Barbour County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Preston County, WV, Taylor County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1992-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 68 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1992-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFairfield, Pickaway55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1992Every 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.