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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Charleston, WV

July 25, 1995Doddridge County, Lewis County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 7:37 PM EDT for Doddridge County, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 1995, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Doddridge County, WV, Lewis County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

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, 3 hours 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, 3 hours 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

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 6:50 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 7:01 PM EDT, 36 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
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, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan	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, 7:50 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, 1995 Every 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.