Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1992, 4:41 PM EDT for Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 1992, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 1992, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kanawha County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 455 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 112043 SVRCRW WVC039-112145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 441 PM EDT SAT JUL 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...KANAWHA COUNTY CHARLESTON WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PUTNAM COUNTY AT 440 PM. A TREE WAS BLOWN DOWN IN PUTNAM COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. HAIL WAS INDICATED ON RADAR WITH THIS STORM. 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/ORCHANIAN
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 11, 3:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
OHZ009-112100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 325 PM EDT SAT JUL 11 1992 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 325 PM EDT INDICATES SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN TO DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTH EAST KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE OVER CENTRAL LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO AND NEAR PORTSMOUTH OHIO MOVING EAST NEAR 30 MPH. THESE STORM ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...DANGEROUS LI>GHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU OBSERVE THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS. SHUFF
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 3:58 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
OHZ009-112200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 400 PM EDT SAT JUL 11 1992 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 400 PM EDT INDICATES SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTH EAST KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE OVER CENTRAL LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO AND OVER PIKE COUNTY OHIO MOVING EAST NEAR 30 MPH. THESE STORM ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU OBSERVE THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS. SHUFF
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:18 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
OHZ009-112200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 420 PM EDT SAT JUL 11 1992 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 420 PM EDT INDICATES SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE OVER CENTRAL LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO...PIKE COUNTY OHIO AND ARE ENTERING NORTHERN CABELL AND MASON COUNTIES OF WEST VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST NEAR 30 MPH. THESE STORM ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS ...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU OBSERVE THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS. SHUFF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 11:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 49 min |
| Jul 11, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 57 min |
| Jul 11, 5:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 5:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Clay, Nicholas | 57 min |
| Jul 11, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 57 min |
| Jul 11, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay | 67 min |
| Jul 11, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenbrier | 111 min |
| Jul 11, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenbrier | 61 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.