Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1992, 6:32 PM EDT for Clay County, Nicholas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1992, 6:32 PM EDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1992, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, WV, Nicholas County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.
- 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
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 9, 4:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
KYZ006-008-WVZ003-092200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 450 PM EDT THU JUL 9 1992 AT ABOUT 445 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CHARLESTON SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN CARTER AND WESTERN BOYD COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTHERN LAWRENCE AND NORTHERN MARTIN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY. IN WEST VIRGINIA...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS CROSSING THE OHIO RIVER AND ENTERING WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS, LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SEEK SHELTER FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH YOUR AREA. END/ORCHANIAN
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:37 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 540 PM EDT THU JUL 09 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR WEST VIRGINIA EXCEPT FOR THE PANHANDLES AND THE POTOMAC HIGHLANDS... AT 535 PM CHARLESTON WEATHER RADAR DETECTED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY, NORTHERN ROANE COUNTY, AND ALSO IN WAYNE COUNTY OR ABOUT 5 TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAYNE WEST VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS, GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OVER NORTHERN MINGO COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA AND IN SOUTHERN OHIO BETWEEN PORTSMOUTH AND CHILLICOTHE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WAYNE COUNTY MAY REACH THE CHARLESTON AREA BY AROUND 630 PM IF THEY DO NOT DISSIPATE. END/ORCHANIAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 58 min |
| Jul 9, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.