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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 251, NWS Charleston, WV

August 2, 1994Ritchie County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1994, 5:17 PM EDT for Ritchie County, West Virginia. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1994, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1994, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Ritchie County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 1994-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1337 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 1994-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1337 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Aug 2, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWetzel36 min
Aug 2, 5:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMarion, Monongalia2 hr
Aug 2, 7:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMarion, Monongalia95 min
Aug 2, 1:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoss63 min
Aug 2, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPerry46 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.