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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Charleston, WV

July 11, 1995Taylor County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1995, 1:28 AM EDT for Taylor County, West Virginia. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1995, 1:28 AM EDT (05:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1995, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Taylor County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 232 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1995-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1956 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1995-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1956 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
4.3

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 1:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour31 min
Jul 11, 2:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRandolph39 min
Jul 11, 3:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.