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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV

June 15, 1994Athens County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1994, 1:59 PM EDT for Athens County, Ohio. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 1994, 1:59 PM EDT (17:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1994, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Athens County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 1994-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 963 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1994-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCMH 151800
TORCMH
OHC009-151845-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
159 PM EDT WED JUN 15 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...ATHENS COUNTY
 
AT 155 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS AND THE DOPPLER
RADAR IN PITTSBURGH WAS INDICATING A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUDERSTORM IN
ATHENS COUNTY BETWEEN ATHENS AND CHANUNCY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT
5 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
ONDREJIK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 8:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFranklin50 min
Jun 15, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFranklin44 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.