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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Charleston, WV

July 29, 1994Wood County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1994, 5:55 PM EDT for Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1994, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1994, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 1994-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 94 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 1994-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
94 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1000 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 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 29, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXSummers50 min
Jul 29, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson52 min
Jul 29, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWirt45 min
Jul 29, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDelaware, Marion60 min
Jul 29, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMadison57 min
Jul 29, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPickaway, Ross69 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.