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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 171, NWS Charleston, WV

August 5, 1995Gilmer County, Lewis County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 4:24 PM EDT for Gilmer County, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1995, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gilmer County, WV, Lewis County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 104 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
104 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTaylor51 min
Aug 5, 7:33 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXCabell27 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.