Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 3:28 AM EDT for Athens County, Meigs County, Vinton County, Ohio. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1995, 3:28 AM EDT (07:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1995, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Athens County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Vinton County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 140725 SVRCRW OHC009-105-163-140815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 328 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...ATHENS COUNTY...MEIGS COUNTY...VINTON COUNTY AT 330 AM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO VINTON BETWEEN 330 AND 340 AM. THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF ATHENS AND MEIGS COUNTIES BETWEEN 345 AND 400 AM A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE W ARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. END/ROZ
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 47 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
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END/LAST NAMEThe 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, 3:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 29 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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.