Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Charleston, WV
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 38 min |
| Jul 25, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jul 25, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason, Putnam | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha | 68 min |
| Jul 25, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane, Wirt | 52 min |
| Jul 25, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Clay | 25 min |
| Jul 25, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer | 41 min |
| Jul 25, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Lewis | 48 min |
| Jul 25, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 53 min |
| Jul 25, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Lewis | 38 min |
| Jul 25, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 40 min |
| Jul 25, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 62 min |
| Jul 25, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Lawrence | 34 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.