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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Charleston, WV

June 28, 1993Braxton County, Calhoun County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1993, 6:32 PM EDT for Braxton County, Calhoun County, West Virginia. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1993, 6:32 PM EDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1993, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 1993-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 99 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 1993-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
99 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Jun 28, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Putnam49 min
Jun 28, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFranklin, Madison62 min
Jun 28, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFairfield, Pickaway, Ross56 min
Jun 28, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXHocking, Vinton51 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.