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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Charleston, WV

June 15, 1994Webster County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1994, 2:13 PM EDT for Webster County, West Virginia. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 1994, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1994, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Webster County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 963 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:41 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:41 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	55 min
Jun 15, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone	63 min
Jun 15, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Lincoln	54 min
Jun 15, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh, Wyoming	66 min
Jun 14, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Franklin	50 min
Jun 15, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Franklin	44 min
Jun 15, 1:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Athens	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.