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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Charleston, WV

July 11, 1992Greenbrier County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1992, 7:59 PM EDT for Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 11, 1992, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 1992, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Greenbrier County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 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

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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 11, 4:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 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

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 4:46 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

OHZ009-112300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
445 PM EDT SAT JUL 11 1992

WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 445 PM EDT INDICATES SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA.

THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE OVER  JACKSON  COUNTY OHIO AND GALLIA COUNTY OHIO.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST NEAR 30 MPH.
MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THE STORM OVER GALLIA COUNTY.

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
FODR LATER STATEMENTS.
SHUFF

Special weather statement, Jul 11, 5:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 6:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 6:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 11, 7:40 PM EDT, 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, 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, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	64 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 10, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Muskingum	40 min
Jul 10, 8:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ross	38 min
Jul 10, 9:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1992 Every 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.