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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Charleston, WV

July 25, 1995Upshur County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1995, 8:04 PM EDT for Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 1995, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1995, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Upshur County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 721 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.3

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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 44 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 36 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, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 7:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 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 26, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	66 min
Jul 26, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs, Vinton	65 min
Jul 26, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs	43 min

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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.