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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Charleston, WV

May 14, 1995Jackson County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 3:16 AM EDT for Jackson County, Ohio. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 3:16 AM EDT (07:16 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 3:45 AM EDT
In force: 29 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, 7.3 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 384 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 140714
SVRCRW
OHC079-140745-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
316 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...JACKSON COUNTY
 
AT 315 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER
CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND
35 TO 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE JUST TO THE SOUTH OF JACKSON BY 330 AM.
 
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
 
END/ROZANSKI/SITES/WHITEHEAD

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, May 14, 1:41 AM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-KYZ101-102-141200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
140 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM FOR SOUTHEASTERN OHIO AND
    PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY...

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED
A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 800 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES:

IN OHIO:

        ATHENS   GALLIA   JACKSON   LAWRENCE   MEIGS
        MONROE   PERRY    VINTON    WASHINGTON

IN KENTUCKY:

        CARTER AND GREENUP

A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS COVERED FAR WESTERN KENTUCKY...
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...MUCH OF INDIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN OHIO
EARLY THIS MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING EASTWARD
ACROSS SOUTHERN OHIO AND EXTREME NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO PORTIONS OF THIS
AREA BEFORE 200 AM. CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO A
POSSIBILITY.

IF THREATENING CONDITIONS DEVELOP OR A WARNING IS ISSUED TAKE COVER
IN THE INTERIOR PORTION OF A HOUSE. STAY AWAY FROM WIzNDOWS AS THE
STORM MOVES THROUGH YOUR AREA.

END/ZINN

NG ACROSS UN

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END/LAST NAME

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 3:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Vinton	29 min
May 14, 3:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Vinton	47 min
May 14, 4:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Meigs	46 min
May 14, 6:24 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Gallia, Meigs, Vinton	6 hr
May 14, 6:24 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson	6 hr

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.