Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 4:08 PM EDT for Roane County, West Virginia. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Roane County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 272010 RRA SVRCRW WVC087-272100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 408 PM EDT THU JUL 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...ROANE COUNTY AT 405 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FIVE MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPENCER. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 20 MPH...WHICH WOULD PUT THE CITY OF SPENCER IN THE STORMS PATH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 43 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, 4:24 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.