Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT for Lincoln County, West Virginia. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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 182245 RRA SVRCRW WVC043-182330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 645 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 645 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN CHARLESTON DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF RANGER IN LINCOLN COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL REACH HARTS AROUND 700 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. ZINN
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, 5 hours 41 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, 5 hours 40 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, 3 hours 47 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, 3 hours 45 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, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 57 min |
| Aug 18, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 47 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.