Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1993, 5:45 PM EDT for Fayette County, West Virginia. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1993, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1993, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, May 18, 3:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 18, 3:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
KYZ006-008-OHZ008-009-WVZ003-182030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 330 PM EDT TUE MAY 18 1993 ....A TORNADO WATCH WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR THE TRI STATE... AT 330 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO SOUTHWEST THROUGH CENTRAL LEWIS COUNTY OF KENTUCKY. THIS LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS LINE SHOULD ENTER INTO WESTERN GREENUP CARTER AND ELLIOTT COUNTIES BY 400 PM EDT. PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN RESULTING IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. IN ADDITION DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL OCCUR. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST ON THIS SITUATION. END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, May 18, 3:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
KYZ006-008-OHZ008-009-WVZ003-182030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 330 PM EDT TUE MAY 18 1993 ....A TORNADO WATCH WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR THE TRI STATE... AT 330 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO SOUTHWEST THROUGH CENTRAL LEWIS COUNTY OF KENTUCKY. THIS LINE IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS LINE SHOULD ENTER INTO WESTERN GREENUP CARTER AND ELLIOTT COUNTIES BY 400 PM EDT. PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES CAN EXPECT BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN RESULTING IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. IN ADDITION DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL OCCUR. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST ON THIS SITUATION. END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, May 18, 5:30 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-182230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST FOR THE MOUNTAINS AND WESTERN SLOPES OF WEST VIRGINIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 530 PM EDT TUE MAY 18 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA... ..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 520PM VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A LINE EXTENDING FROM CALHOUN COUNTY THROUGH KANAWHA COUNTY AND ON INTO KENTUCKY THOUGH NORTHWESTERN MINGO COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 50 MPH. BY 630 PM THE LINE WILL HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE CHARLESTON AREA BUT WILL BE APPROACHING GLENVILLE, SUTTON, WESTERN RALEIGH COUNTY, AND ON THROUGH WESTERN WYOMING AND MCDOWELL COUNTIES. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS, LARGE HAIL, AND FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PLEASE REPORT ALL SEVERE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. DGH
Special weather statement, May 18, 5:33 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-182230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST FOR THE MOUNTAINS AND WESTERN SLOPES OF WEST VIRGINIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 530 PM EDT TUE MAY 18 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA... ..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 520PM VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A LINE EXTENDING FROM CALHOUN COUNTY THROUGH KANAWHA COUNTY AND ON INTO KENTUCKY THOUGH NORTHWESTERN MINGO COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 50 MPH. BY 630 PM THE LINE WILL HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE CHARLESTON AREA BUT WILL BE APPROACHING GLENVILLE, SUTTON, WESTERN RALEIGH COUNTY, AND ON THROUGH WESTERN WYOMING AND MCDOWELL COUNTIES. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS, LARGE HAIL, AND FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PLEASE REPORT ALL SEVERE TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMEN<T AGENCY. DGH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 40 min |
| May 18, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 53 min |
| May 18, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 41 min |
| May 18, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 53 min |
| May 18, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lewis, Upshur | 62 min |
| May 18, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph | 62 min |
| May 18, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 28 min |
| May 18, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 67 min |
| May 18, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenbrier | 69 min |
| May 18, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Summers | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.