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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Charleston, WV

June 21, 1994Barbour County, Randolph County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1994, 5:46 PM EDT for Barbour County, Randolph County, West Virginia. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 1994, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1994, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Barbour County, WV, Randolph County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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, Jun 21, 2:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

WVZ005>047-212130-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
405 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 1994

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS POSTED FOR NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA
INTO THIS EVENING.  THIS INCLUDES AREAS FROM PARKERSBURG AND CLARKSBURG
ON NORTH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FOR A FEW
COUNTIES.

AROUND 4 PM, STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EASTERN OHIO, SOUTH OF
BETHESDA AND CAMBRIDGE.  THESE STORMS EXTENDED EAST, THROUGH
OHIO AND NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTIES OF THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE AND
INTO GREENE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA.  THESE STORMS WILL DROP SOUTHEAST AND
AFFECT SUCH COUNTIES AS WETZEL, MONONGALIA, MARION, AND PRESTON BETWEEN
4:30 AND 6 PM.  THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF NEW MARTINSVILLE,
MORGANTOWN AND FAIRMONT.

THESE COOLING THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH THE COUNTIES OF TYLER,
PLEASANTS, DODDRIDGE, HARRISON, AND TAYLOR BETWEEN 5:30 AND 7 PM.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING AT 4 PM, ALONG THE
INTERSTATE 79 CORRIDOR FROM CLARKSBURG TO SUTTON.

THESE EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
WEST VIRGINIA COULD DUMP AN INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES,
CAUSING THE TYPICAL PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS.  HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE.  TEMPERATURES COULD DROP
15 TO 20 DEGREES DURING ANY EARLY EVENING STORM.

MORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING.

END / KTB

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

WVZ005>047-212130-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
405 PM EDT TUE JUN 21 1994

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS POSTED FOR NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA
INTO THIS EVENING.  THIS INCLUDES AREAS FROM PARKERSBURG AND CLARKSBURG
ON NORTH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FOR A FEW
COUNTIES.

AROUND 4 PM, STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EASTERN OHIO, SOUTH OF
BETHESDA AND CAMBRIDGE.  THESE STORMS EXTENDED EAST, THROUGH
OHIO AND NORTHERN MARSHALL COUNTIES OF THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE AND
INTO GREENE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA.  THESE STORMS WILL DROP SOUTHEAST AND
AFFECT SUCH COUNTIES AS WETZEL, MONONGALIA, MARION, AND PRESTON BETWEEN
4:30 AND 6 PM.  THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF NEW MARTINSVILLE,
MORGANTOWN AND FAIRMONT.

THESE COOLING THUNDERSTORMS COULD REACH THE COUNTIES OF TYLER,
PLEASANTS, DODDRIDGE, HARRISON, AND TAYLOR BETWEEN 5:30 AND 7 PM.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING AT 4 PM, ALONG THE
INTERSTATE 79 CORRIDOR FROM CLARKSBURG TO SUTTON.

THESE EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
WEST VIRGINIA COULD DUMP AN INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES,
CAUSING THE TYPICAL PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS.  HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE.  TEMPERATURES COULD DROP
15 TO 20 DEGREES DURING ANY EARLY EVENING STORM.

MORE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING.

END / KTB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 20, 11:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln	45 min
Jun 21, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Preston	57 min
Jun 21, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Tyler, Wetzel	55 min
Jun 21, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Monongalia	68 min
Jun 20, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Vinton	48 min
Jun 21, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fairfield, Franklin, Licking	62 min
Jun 21, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	55 min
Jun 21, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fairfield, Franklin	63 min
Jun 21, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	64 min
Jun 21, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Hocking	58 min
Jun 21, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ross	57 min
Jun 21, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pickaway	55 min
Jun 21, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens	64 min
Jun 21, 6:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Ross	66 min
Jun 21, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Vinton	63 min
Jun 21, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fairfield	52 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.