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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Charleston, WV

June 6, 1994Preston County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1994, 2:05 PM EDT for Preston County, West Virginia. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1994, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1994, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Preston County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 1994-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1994-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 237 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
237 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
Jun 6, 2:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMarion, Monongalia55 min
Jun 6, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLicking, Muskingum60 min
Jun 6, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDelaware41 min
Jun 6, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLicking66 min
Jun 6, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFairfield39 min
Jun 6, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLicking, Muskingum42 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.