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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Charleston, WV

June 18, 1994Monongalia County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1994, 6:35 PM EDT for Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 1994, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1994, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Monongalia County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 1994-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1283 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 1994-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -3 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
1283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 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 17, 8:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMadison44 min
Jun 18, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMuskingum62 min
Jun 18, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFairfield, Pickaway57 min
Jun 18, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoss63 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.