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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV

July 11, 1992Kanawha County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jul 11, 1992, 5:16 PM EDT for Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1992, 5:16 PM EDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1992, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
44 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, 9.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1992-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 455 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1992-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 11:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoane49 min
Jul 11, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPutnam57 min
Jul 11, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha64 min
Jul 11, 5:33 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXClay, Nicholas57 min
Jul 11, 6:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha57 min
Jul 11, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXClay67 min
Jul 11, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGreenbrier111 min
Jul 11, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGreenbrier61 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.