Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 21, 1995, 12:54 AM EST for Jackson County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 21, 1995, 12:54 AM EST (05:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 1995, 1:45 AM EST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 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 210555 RRA SVRCRW OHC079-210645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1254 AM EST TUE MAR 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY AT 1250 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTH CENTRAL SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH...AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF JACKSON COUNTY OH BETWEEN 100 AND 145 AM. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS HAIL. 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. 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, Mar 20, 10:54 PM EST, 2 hours before
WVZ006-210600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1055 PM EST MON MAR 20 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CABELL COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL OVER PORTIONS OF CABELL COUNTY EARLIER THIS EVENING...HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED NORTHEAST OUT OF THE COUNTY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE AREA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...HOWEVER AT THIS TIME THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. THE NATIONAL WEATHER WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS. END/ROZANSKI
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 10:55 PM EST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
WVZ006-210600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1055 PM EST MON MAR 20 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CABELL COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL OVER PORTIONS OF CABELL COUNTY EARLIER THIS EVENING...HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED NORTHEAST OUT OF THE COUNTY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER THE AREA DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...HOWEVER AT THIS TIME THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. THE NATIONAL WEATHER WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS. END/ROZANSKI
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 11:29 PM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before
WVZ033>035-210535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA 1129 PM EST MON MAR 20 1995 AT 1120 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTS A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM CENTRAL RALEIGH COUNTY SOUTH ACROSS EASTERN WYOMING AND MCDOWELL COUNTIES. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND THE STORMS WILL BE APPROACHING WESTERN SUMMERS AND MERCER COUNTIES BY 1130 PM. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS, SMALL HAIL, AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO, HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL STATION FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS THIS EVENING. CACCIAPAGLIA
Nearby
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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.