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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Charleston, WV

July 25, 1994Nicholas County, Webster County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1994, 5:44 PM EDT for Nicholas County, Webster County, West Virginia. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1994, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1994, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Nicholas County, WV, Webster County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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 1994-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1173 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 1994-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
1173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
0.7

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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
Jul 25, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPutnam29 min
Jul 25, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha, Roane37 min
Jul 25, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLewis55 min
Jul 25, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGilmer53 min
Jul 25, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXUpshur60 min
Jul 25, 1:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPickaway39 min
Jul 25, 3:02 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPickaway44 min
Jul 25, 3:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFairfield45 min
Jul 25, 7:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDelaware63 min
Jul 25, 9:02 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLicking43 min
Jul 25, 12:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFranklin40 min
Jul 25, 2:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFairfield, Pickaway59 min
Jul 25, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPerry48 min
Jul 25, 2:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXHocking46 min
Jul 25, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens, Morgan55 min
Jul 25, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens45 min
Jul 25, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFairfield63 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.