Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 10:05 PM EDT for McDowell County, Wyoming County, West Virginia. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 10:05 PM EDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McDowell County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 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 190206 SVRCRW WVC047-109-190245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1005 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...MCDOWELL COUNTY...WYOMING COUNTY AT 1003 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN MINGO COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF HANOVER AND IAEGER BY 1015 PM AND THE CITY OF WELCH BY 1030 PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDFERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LDW
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 18, 5:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
WVZ007-009-017-018-029-OHZ066-067-076-083>085-KYZ101-102-104-202300- SPECIAL WEATHER AND RIVER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 545 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 ...WATER LEVELS RUNNING HIGH ON THE LITTLE SANDY IN KENTUCKY... AND ON THE HOCKING AND MUSKINGUM RIVERS IN OHIO.... ...HIGH WATER LEVELS EXPECTED ON THE LITTLE KANAWHA RIVER IN WEST VIRGINIA... RAINFALL THAT FELL ACROSS THE AREA EARLIER TODAY....EXPECTED RAINFALL BETWEEN 3/4 TO 1.50 INCHES THIS EVENING...AND THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WILL ALLOW MOST OF THE WATER TO RUNOFF INTO THE STREAMS AND INTO THE LITTLE SANDY...HOCKING...MUSKINGUM...AND LITTLE KANAWHA RIVERS. WATER LEVELS ON THE LITTLE SANDY AT GRAYSON WERE RUNNING NEAR BANKFULL AT THIS TIME. THE LITTLE SANDY AT GRAYSON IS EXPECTED TO CREST AROUND THE FLOOD STAGE OF 21 FEET DURING THE MORNING HOURS ON FRIDAY. WATER LEVELS ON THE HOCKING RIVER AT ATHENS IS EXPECTED TO REACH NEAR THE FLOOD STAGE OF 20 FEET ON SATURDAY EVENING. WATER LEVELS ON THE MUSKINGUM RIVER ARE EXPECTED TO CREST FROM 3/4 TO NEAR BANKFULL AT MCCONNELLSVILLE. WATER LEVELS ON THE LITTLE KANAWHA AT GLENVILLE ARE EXPECTED TO REACH 3/4 TO NEAR BANKFULL AROUND NOON ON FRIDAY. GRANTSVILLE AND ELIZABETH ARE ONLY EXPECTED TO REACH 3/4 BANKFULL. BACKWATER AFFECTS ON STREAMS AND CREEKS THAT FEED INTO THESE RIVERS MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. PERSONS LIVING ALONG THE LITTLE SANDY...HOCKING...MUSKINGUM... AND LITTLE KANAWHA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WATER LEVELS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAYS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. END/SIKORA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay | 25 min |
| May 18, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mingo | 29 min |
| May 18, 9:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 6 hr |
| May 18, 9:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 6 hr |
| May 18, 9:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Mingo | 30 min |
| May 18, 10:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 47 min |
| May 18, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 27 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.