Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1995, 10:48 PM EDT for Morgan County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1995, 10:48 PM EDT (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1995, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morgan County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 971 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 10:25 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
WVZ007>011-016>020-028>032-039-040-047-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-140400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1028 PM EDT THU JUL 13 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 400 AM... ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HEADED FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA... AT 1025 PM...CHARLESTON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL OHIO JUST TO THE NORTH OF COLUMBUS ...ZANESVILLE AND WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE SOUTH AT AROUND 50 MPH. AT THIS RATE...STORMS WILL REACH ATHENS OHIO...PARKERSBURG AND WEST UNION IN WEST VIRGINIA BETWEEN 1130 PM AND 1230 AM. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY WINDS GUSTING OVER 40 MPH... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE SOME HAIL. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH AND DOWNED TREES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM PARTS OF NORTHERN OHIO WITH THESE STORMS EARLIER THIS EVENING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND PREPARE TO MOVE TO SHELTER. REYNOLDS
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 10:28 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
WVZ007>011-016>020-028>032-039-040-047-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-140400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1028 PM EDT THU JUL 13 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 400 AM... ...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HEADED FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA... AT 1025 PM...CHARLESTON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL OHIO JUST TO THE NORTH OF COLUMBUS ...ZANESVILLE AND WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE SOUTH AT AROUND 50 MPH. AT THIS RATE...STORMS WILL REACH ATHENS OHIO...PARKERSBURG AND WEST UNION IN WEST VIRGINIA BETWEEN 1130 PM AND 1230 AM. THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY WINDS GUSTING OVER 40 MPH... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE SOME HAIL. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH AND DOWNED TREES HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM PARTS OF NORTHERN OHIO WITH THESE STORMS EARLIER THIS EVENING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY AND PREPARE TO MOVE TO SHELTER. REYNOLDS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 11:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Wood | 64 min |
| Jul 13, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Tyler | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 70 min |
| Jul 13, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 70 min |
| Jul 13, 11:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Ritchie, Wirt | 50 min |
| Jul 13, 10:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 11:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Washington | 58 min |
| Jul 13, 11:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Vinton | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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.