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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Charleston, WV

July 26, 1993Hampshire County, Mineral County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1993, 4:06 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Mineral County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1993, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1993, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hampshire County, WV, Mineral County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1993-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1278 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1993-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1278 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Roane55 min
Jul 26, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXHardy64 min
Jul 26, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour57 min
Jul 26, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRandolph69 min
Jul 26, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens57 min
Jul 26, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAllegany, Garrett58 min

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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.