Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 1995, 5:43 AM EST for Lee County, Wise County, Virginia. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 1995, 5:43 AM EST (10:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 1995, 6:45 AM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lee County, VA, Wise County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KTRI 231043 RRA SVRTRI VAC105-195-720-231145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TN 543 AM EST THU MAR 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BRISTOL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ...LEE COUNTY...WISE COUNTY AND THE INDEPENDENT CITY OF ...CITY OF NORTON WEATHER RADAR AT 540 AM INDICATES A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL MOVING MOVING THROUGH LESLIE COUNTY KENTUCKY. THIS STORM IS WILL MOVE INTO WISE AND LEE COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA BEFORE 7AM. PERSONS IN THE ABOVE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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, Mar 23, 4:55 AM EST, 48 minutes before
TNZ015>018-042>047-VAZ001>009-231130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TENNESSEE 455 AM EST THU MAR 23 1995 WEATHER RADAR AT 450 AM INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN JACKSON AND LAUREL COUNTIS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ALONG THE WISE AND LEE COUNTY BORDERS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THIS STORM MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS AND EVEN SOME HAIL AS IT MOVES EAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH. PERSONS IN WISE AND LEE COUNTIES VIRGINIA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THIS STORM. ...CORRECTED FOR LOCATION OF STORM...
Special weather statement, Mar 23, 4:56 AM EST, 47 minutes before
TNZ015>018-042>047-VAZ001>009-231130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TENNESSEE 455 AM EST THU MAR 23 1995 WEATHER RADAR AT 450 AM INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN HARLAN COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ALONG THE LEE AND WISE COUNTY BORDERS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THIS STORM MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS AND EVEN SOME HAIL AS IT MOVES EAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH. PERSONS IN WISE AND LEE COUNTIES VIRGINIA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THIS STORM. SP
Special weather statement, Mar 23, 5:00 AM EST, 43 minutes before
TNZ015>018-042>047-VAZ001>009-231130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TENNESSEE 455 AM EST THU MAR 23 1995 WEATHER RADAR AT 450 AM INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN JACKSON AND LAUREL COUNTIS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ALONG THE WISE AND LEE COUNTY BORDERS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THIS STORM MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS AND EVEN SOME HAIL AS IT MOVES EAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH. PERSONS IN WISE AND LEE COUNTIES VIRGINIA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THIS STORM. ...CORRECTED FOR LOCATION OF STORM...
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.