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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Charleston, WV

July 20, 1994Randolph County, Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1994, 3:13 PM EDT for Randolph County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 1994, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1994, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Randolph County, WV, Tucker County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 1994-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 777 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 1994-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
777 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPreston58 min
Jul 20, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha57 min
Jul 20, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln54 min
Jul 20, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPutnam56 min
Jul 20, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRaleigh65 min
Jul 20, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWood44 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.