Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1995, 5:48 PM EDT for McDowell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1995, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County McDowell County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1014 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 182148 RRA SVRCRW WVC047-182245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 548 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...MCDOWELL COUNTY AT 545 PM...RADAR INDICATED TWO POSSIBLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MCDOWELL COUNTY...ONE JUST NORTH OF IAEGER AND ANOTHER JUST SOUTH OF GARY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER I2N 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. REYNOLDS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 1:04 PM EDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
WVZ046-181900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 105 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES OVER SOUTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY. AT 100 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF MARLINTON IN SOUTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY SINCE AROUND NOONTIME. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES AROUND 2 INCHES ARE COMMON WITH THIS STORM. ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED OVERFLOW OF STREAMS AND CREEKS. REYNOLDS
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 1:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
WVZ046-181900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 105 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES OVER SOUTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY. AT 100 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF MARLINTON IN SOUTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS BEEN NEARLY STATIONARY SINCE AROUND NOONTIME. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES AROUND 2 INCHES ARE COMMON WITH THIS STORM. ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED OVERFLOW OF STREAMS AND CREEKS. REYNOLDS
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 2:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
WVZ046-182100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 300 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY... AT 255 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. MOST OF THE HEAVIER RAINFALL HAS SHIFTED TO THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT ABOUT 10 TO 15 MPH. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OVER PARTS OF THIS AREA ARE ABOVE 3 INCHES...ESPECIALLY WEST OF MARLINTON. STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL EXPERIENCE QUICK RISES AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY BY 500 PvM. REYNOLDS
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 3:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
WVZ046-182100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 300 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY... AT 255 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. MOST OF THE HEAVIER RAINFALL HAS SHIFTED TO THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTH AT ABOUT 10 TO 15 MPH. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OVER PARTS OF THIS AREA ARE ABOVE 3 INCHES...ESPECIALLY WEST OF MARLINTON. STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL EXPERIENCE QUICK RISES AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY BY 500 PM. REYNOLDS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mingo | 49 min |
| Aug 18, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 47 min |
| Aug 18, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan | 57 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.