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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Charleston, WV

August 1, 1995Putnam County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1995, 11:05 PM EDT for Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1995, 11:05 PM EDT (03:05 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1995, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Putnam County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 54 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1995-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2348 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1995-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 020307 RRA
SVRCRW
WVC079-020345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1105 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...PUTNAM COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOW A LARGE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER HURRICANE WV MOVING NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. SEVERAL
RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS ARE MERGING WITH THIS STORM...
INCREASING ITS STRENGTH. EXPECT A PERIOD OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND
LARGE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. SIMILAR STORMS HAVE CAUSED WIDESPREAD DAMAGE
IN NEIGHBORING COUNTIES IN THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS.
 
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 SHELT@ER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
EOM

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 9:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln40 min
Aug 1, 9:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne63 min
Aug 1, 9:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLogan, Mingo66 min
Aug 1, 10:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone, Lincoln62 min
Aug 1, 11:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha48 min
Aug 1, 11:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha, Putnam3 hr
Aug 2, 12:06 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson54 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.