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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Charleston, WV

July 9, 1992Braxton County, Clay County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1992, 8:04 PM EDT for Braxton County, Clay County, West Virginia. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 1992, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 1992, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Braxton County, WV, Clay County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 2573 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1116 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.4

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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 9, 4:51 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 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, 2 hours 27 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

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 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 10, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Marion	63 min
Jul 10, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Preston	63 min
Jul 10, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Monongalia	67 min
Jul 10, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mineral	57 min
Jul 10, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Monongalia, Preston	57 min
Jul 10, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mineral	58 min
Jul 10, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Monongalia	55 min
Jul 10, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Hampshire	62 min
Jul 10, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Harrison, Marion	58 min
Jul 10, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Taylor	62 min
Jul 10, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Tucker	59 min
Jul 10, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Franklin, Madison	66 min
Jul 10, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Licking	62 min
Jul 10, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Muskingum, Perry	68 min
Jul 10, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Union	41 min
Jul 10, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Delaware	41 min
Jul 10, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Licking	47 min
Jul 10, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Garrett	58 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.