Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1995, 4:26 PM EDT for Clay County, West Virginia. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1995, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1995, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 272030 RRA SVRCRW WVC021-015-272115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 426 PM EDT THU JUL 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...GILMER COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...CLAY COUNTY AT 420 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE CITY OF CLAY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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, 4:08 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, 4:34 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.