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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Charleston, WV

April 10, 1995Ritchie County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1995, 1:02 PM EDT for Ritchie County, West Virginia. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 1995, 1:02 PM EDT (17:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1995, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Ritchie County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 696 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 693 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, Apr 10, 9:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

WVZ007>012-VAZ008-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>086-101500-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
915 AM EDT MON APR 10 1995

...STORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST OHIO AND EXTREME NORTHWESTERN
   SECTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA...

CHARLESTON 88-D WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST OHIO AND MOVING INTO THE NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS
OF WEST VIRGINIA.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 35 TO 40 MPH.
THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.

BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY REDUCE VISIBILITY AND CAUSE PONDING OF WATER
ON ROADWAYS. MOTORIST USE CAUTION.

END/SIKORA

Special weather statement, Apr 10, 9:19 AM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

WVZ007>012-VAZ008-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>086-101500-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
915 AM EDT MON APR 10 1995

...STORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST OHIO AND EXTREME NORTHWESTERN
   SECTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA...

CHARLESTON 88-D WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST OHIO AND MOVING INTO THE NORTHWESTERN SECTIONS
OF WEST VIRGINIA.  THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 35 TO 40 MPH.
THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL.

BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY REDUCE VISIBILITY AND CAUSE PONDING OF WATER
ON ROADWAYS. MOTORIST USE CAUTION.

END/SIKORA

Special weather statement, Apr 10, 12:25 PM EDT, 37 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
Apr 10, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	32 min
Apr 10, 11:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs	55 min

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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.