Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 2:32 PM EDT for Cabell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cabell County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 271835 RRA SVRCRW WVC011-271915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 232 PM EDT THU JUL 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...CABELL COUNTY AT 230 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN CABELL COUNTY 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF ONA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST AROUND 10 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. SITES/YOUNG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph | 52 min |
| Jul 27, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 30 min |
| Jul 27, 4:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 52 min |
| Jul 27, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 51 min |
| Jul 27, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 49 min |
| Jul 27, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay | 49 min |
| Jul 27, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Kanawha | 43 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.