Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1994, 2:56 PM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1994, 2:56 PM EDT (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1994, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tucker County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 968 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
Local storm report, Jun 16, 10:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1036 AM EDT THU JUN 16 1994
ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS FROM WEDNESDAY JUNE 15 1994
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TIME PLACE
EDT COUNTY REMARKS
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500 PM- BOONE CO. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWNED
530 PM KANAWHA CO. BY THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
LINCOLN CO. APPROXIMATELY 3800 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT
POWER FROM STORM RELATED DAMAGE.
MAJORITY OF AFFECTED CUSTOMERS IN
NORTHERN BOONE CO...NEXT HIGHEST
KANAWHA CO.
REPORTS VIA SPOTTERS AND POWER CO.
REYNOLDS/REZEK/SEKELSKYSpecial weather statement, Jun 16, 1:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
WVZ023-039-040-041-046-047-MDZ001-161830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 128 PM EDT THU JUN 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA...WESTERN MARYLAND... WEATHER RADAR AT 125 PM INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR HUNTERSVILLE IN POCAHONTAS COUNTY, NEAR ELKINS, HARMAN AND VALLEY HEAD IN RANDOLPH COUNTY AND OVER EASTERN GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOW AND WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. SOME STORMS COULD DUMP ENOUGH RAIN TO BRING SMALL STREAMS UP AND POSSIBLY OUT OF THEIR BANKS. FLOODING TO LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS POSSIBLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE INDOORS TO SAFE SHELTER. IF YOU ARE ALONG A SMALL STREAM OR CREEK, KEEP WATCH ON THE WATER LEVELS IF HEAVY RAINS OCCUR. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME WESTERN MARYLAND THIS AFTERNOON. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END PG NNNN
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
WVZ023-039-040-041-046-047-MDZ001-161830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 128 PM EDT THU JUN 16 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA...WESTERN MARYLAND... WEATHER RADAR AT 125 PM INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR HUNTERSVILLE IN POCAHONTAS COUNTY, NEAR ELKINS, HARMAN AND VALLEY HEAD IN RANDOLPH COUNTY AND OVER EASTERN GARRETT COUNTY MARYLAND. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOW AND WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. SOME STORMS COULD DUMP ENOUGH RAIN TO BRING SMALL STREAMS UP AND POSSIBLY OUT OF THEIR BANKS. FLOODING TO LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS POSSIBLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE INDOORS TO SAFE SHELTER. IF YOU ARE ALONG A SMALL STREAM OR CREEK, KEEP WATCH ON THE WATER LEVELS IF HEAVY RAINS OCCUR. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME WESTERN MARYLAND THIS AFTERNOON. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END PG NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Upshur | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 68 min |
| Jun 16, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 73 min |
| Jun 16, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Monongalia, Preston | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Marion | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 8:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 10:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 11:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin | 64 min |
| Jun 16, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fairfield, Franklin | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Delaware | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Licking | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Union | 65 min |
| Jun 16, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Delaware, Franklin | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fairfield, Pickaway | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Ross | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Garrett | 64 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.