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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Charleston, WV

July 25, 1995Logan County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 5:37 PM EDT for Logan County, West Virginia. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 25, 1995, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Logan County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 1995-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1995-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 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, Jul 25, 4:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
WVZ005-006-013-024-OHZ086-087-KYZ101>105-107-119-252100-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
420 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 1995

THUNDERSTORMS WERE BRINGING COOLING RAINS TO NORTHEAST KENTUCKY.

AT 4:15 PM...THE BRIEF DOWNPOURS WERE NEAR GREENUP...OLIVE HILL...
GRAYSON...SANDY HOOK...AND SELYERSVILLE.  THE RAIN WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

BRIEF WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEAST OHIO AND THE HUNTINGTON REGION
OF WEST VIRGINIA BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM.

END / KTB / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 4:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
WVZ005-006-013-024-OHZ086-087-KYZ101>105-107-119-252100-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
420 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 1995

THUNDERSTORMS WERE BRINGING COOLING RAINS TO NORTHEAST KENTUCKY.

AT 4:15 PM...THE BRIEF DOWNPOURS WERE NEAR GREENUP...OLIVE HILL...
GRAYSON...SANDY HOOK...AND SELYERSVILLE.  THE RAIN WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

BRIEF WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

THESE STORMS WIXLL AFFECT SOUTHEAST OHIO AND THE HUNTINGTON REGION
OF WEST VIRGINIA BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM.

END / KTB / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne38 min
Jul 25, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell44 min
Jul 25, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln46 min
Jul 25, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMason, Putnam51 min
Jul 25, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone, Kanawha68 min
Jul 25, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoane, Wirt52 min
Jul 25, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCalhoun, Clay25 min
Jul 25, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton, Gilmer41 min
Jul 25, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDoddridge, Lewis48 min
Jul 25, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWebster53 min
Jul 25, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDoddridge, Lewis38 min
Jul 25, 7:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXHarrison40 min
Jul 25, 7:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPocahontas, Randolph62 min
Jul 25, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Lawrence34 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.