Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1992, 5:02 PM EDT for Garrett County, Maryland. It was in force for 58 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1992, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1992, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garrett County, MD
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 5:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Garrett, MD |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEKN 102102 SVREKN MDC023-102200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 502 PM EDT FRI JUL 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST MARYLAND ...GARRETT COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING INTO WESTERN GARRETT COUNTY FROM PRESTON COUNTY OF WEST VIRGINIA. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS AND SMALL HAIL IN MONONGALIA AND PRESTON COUNTIES OF WEST VIRGINIA. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. END/GAV NNNN
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 10, 2:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
WVZ005-009-101915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 211 PM EDT FRI JUL 10 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA... WEATHER RADAR AT 205 PM EDT INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS MONONGALIA...MARION AND PRESTON COUNTIES OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF MORGANTOWN. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AROUND 45 MPH. PERSONS ACROSS THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES PLUS ALL OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA SHOULD BE ALERT TO THREATENING WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES MOVE INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANC:ES. THUNDERSTORMS COULD CONTAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHNTING...HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL. STAY ALERT AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. END GILKERSON NNNN
Local storm report, Jul 10, 2:24 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV
225 PM EDT FRI JUL 10 1992
...LOCAL REPORT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #579 & #585 07/09/92
*** ALL REPORT TIMES ARE GMT ***
07/09/92 2250 W109 R.D. BAILEY LAKE
STORM HAD JUST STARTED UP WHEN CALL MADE
07/09/92 2345 W047 DAVY
BEAN-SIZE HAIL REPORTED
07/09/92 2345 W047 CAPELS
"HAIL WAS ABOUT THE SIZE OF A DIME"
HAILSTORM WAS QUITE BRIEF
07/09/92 2357 W047 BIG SANDY
A LITTLE WIND AND RAIN BUT NO DAMAGE REPORTED
07/10/92 5 W025 QUINWOOD
SEVERAL TREES DOWN; WINDOWS BLOWN OUT OF 1 HOUSE;
SPRING DOOR RIPPED OFF A HOME; CAR DAMAGED; BEDLINER RIPPED OUT OF A
TRUCK.
07/10/92 15 W025 QUINWOOD
MODERATELY LARGE PINE TREES HAD TOP 30 FEET CHOPPED OFF
FUNNEL CLOUD MAY HAVE TOUCHED DOWN AND CAUSED ABOVE DAMAGE
APPLE TREES ALSO DAMAGED
AFTER PERSONAL INVESTIGATION AND INTERROGATION OF POSSIBLE WITNESSES,
IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT A TORNADO WAS INVOLVED. DAMAGE WAS SPOTTY AT
BEST. THERE WERE MANY TREES WHICH HAD SUFFERED THE CHOP-OFF PHENOMENON;
THEY ALL FELL IN THE SAME DIRECTION. ACCORDING TO ONE WITNESS, THE ONLY
WAY A TORNADO COULD HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WAS "IF IT HAD FORMED OjN THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE HILL NEAR MARFRANCE; A TORNADO DID NOT AFFECT
QUINWOOD." IT WAS A SIGHT TO SEE, HOWEVER. ONE UPROOTED TREE HAD A ROOT
SYSTEM WHICH STOOD MORE THAN 6 FEET HIGH!Special weather statement, Jul 10, 4:43 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-102200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 445 PM EDT FRI JUL 10 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 O'CLOCK THIS EVENING FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 433 THIS AFTERNOON...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CHARLESTON INDICATED A DEVELOPING LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM PITTSBURGH PENNSYLVANIA TO WHEELING...TO 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF PARKERSBURG WEST VIRGINIA. THE LINE THEN EXTENDED FURTHER WEST INTO CHILLICOTHE OHIO. IN ADDITION... AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE LINE IN THE VICINITY OF SOUTHERN NOBLE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST OHIO...NEAR CALDWELL. THIS STORM WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO WETZEL COUNTY IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...AND PASS JUST SOUTH OF NEW MARTINSVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORM LINE WAS SINKING SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. AS THIS STORM PASSES...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 57 MILES AND LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. MEDLIN
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 | Garrett | 63 min |
| Jul 10, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Allegany | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.