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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Charleston, WV

June 29, 1994Fairfield County, Licking County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1994, 3:13 AM EDT for Fairfield County, Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1994, 3:13 AM EDT (07:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1994, 4:15 AM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fairfield County, OH, Licking County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1994-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 534 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1994-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
534 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1448 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

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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 28, 10:02 PM EDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 11:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
WVZ006-007-005-KYZ103-101-OHZ086-083-290430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
1127 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 1994

....THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE TRI STATE...

AT 11:20 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS IN
GALLIA COUNTY, OHIO AND GREENUP AND BOYD COUNTY KENTUCKY NEAR THE TOWN OASHLAND.

A THIRD AREA WAS OVER EASTERN CABELL COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF MILTON
WEST VIRGINIA.

THESE AREAS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE AREA IN GALLIA COUNTY WILL
MOVE INTO MASON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA AFTER 11:30 PM. THE AREA IN
GREENUP AND BOYD COUNTIES WILL MOVE INTO HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA
AND NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY AROUND 11:30 PM AND WESTERN CABELL COUNTY
SHORTLY THEREAFTER.

BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED AS THESE
STORMS MOVE EAST.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK A SAFE PLACE OF SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.

JC
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 12:22 AM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
WVZ005>047-290600-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
0012 AM EDT WED JUN 29 1994

AT ABOUT 1205 AM CHARLESTON WEATHER RADAR DETECTED VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 12:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoane63 min
Jun 29, 1:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRitchie42 min
Jun 29, 1:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCalhoun60 min
Jun 29, 2:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDoddridge, Gilmer27 min
Jun 29, 2:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLewis66 min
Jun 29, 2:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXHarrison45 min
Jun 29, 5:48 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPleasants, Wood57 min
Jun 29, 5:48 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTyler, Wetzel57 min
Jun 29, 5:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTyler, Wetzel52 min
Jun 29, 5:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPleasants, Wood52 min
Jun 29, 6:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson46 min
Jun 29, 8:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXHarrison, Lewis45 min
Jun 29, 2:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFranklin36 min
Jun 29, 2:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMadison66 min
Jun 29, 2:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDelaware50 min
Jun 29, 3:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPerry68 min
Jun 29, 3:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMuskingum63 min
Jun 29, 5:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMorgan47 min
Jun 29, 5:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXVinton44 min
Jun 29, 5:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens50 min
Jun 29, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMadison57 min
Jun 29, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPickaway27 min
Jun 29, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPerry60 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.