Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 12:25 PM EDT for Boone County, West Virginia. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1995, 12:25 PM EDT (16:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1995, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boone County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCRW 111625 RRA SVRCRW WVC005-111700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1225 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...BOONE COUNTY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTY WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN BOONE COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF KNOCKING TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN NEAR MAN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. THE COMMUNITY OF BALD KNOB IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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. SITES
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, Jun 11, 8:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-VAZ003-004-OHZ066-067-075-076- 083>087-KYZ101>105-107-119-111600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 845 AM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 A BIG CHANGE IN THE WEATHER CONTINUES TO BE STRESSED FOR THE MID OHIO VALLEY AND CENTRAL APPALACHIANS. TODAY WILL BE ANOTHER HUMID DAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL AGAIN BE WATCHING FOR DOWNPOURS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF GUSTY WINDS OR HAIL. FRESHER AND COOLER AIR WILL MOVE INTO OUR REGION...FROM THE WEST...DURING THE DAY ON MONDAY. A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY...MAINLY OVER THE WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS...AS THE COOLER AIR TAKES CHARGE. THE COMFORT LEVEL FOR OUTDOOR WORK/CHORES OR EXERCISE WILL BE NOTICEABLY BETTER ON MONDAY AFTERNOON AND AGAIN ON TUESDAY. SO YOU MAY HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE TO AVOID THE WORK THIS AFTERNOON. OF COURSE...THE NEIGHBORHOOD POOL MAY NOT LIKE THIS UPCOMING CHANGE. MONDAY NIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING WILL EVEN BE CHILLY FOR MID JUNE. END / KTB / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 8:46 AM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-VAZ003-004-OHZ066-067-075-076- 083>087-KYZ101>105-107-119-111600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 845 AM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 A BIG CHANGE IN THE WEATHER CONTINUES TO BE STRESSED FOR THE MID OHIO VALLEY AND CENTRAL APPALACHIANS. TODAY WILL BE ANOTHER HUMID DAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL AGAIN BE WATCHING FOR DOWNPOURS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF GUSTY WINDS OR HAIL. FRESHER AND COOLER AIR WILL MOVE INTO OUR REGION...FROM THE WEST...DURING THE DAY ON MONDAY. A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY...MAINLY OVER THE WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINS...AS THE COOLER AIR TAKES CHARGE. THE COMFORT LEVEL FOR OUTDOOR WORK/CHORES OR EXERCISE WILL BE NOTICEABLY BETTER ON MONDAY AFTERNOON AND AGAIN ON TUESDAY. SO YOU MAY HAVE A GOOD EXCUSE TO AVOID THE WORK THIS AFTERNOON. OF COURSE...THE NEIGHBORHOOD POOL MAY NOT LIKE THIS UPCOMING CHANGE. MONDAY NIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING WILL EVEN BE CHILLY FOR MID JUNE. END / KTB / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 11:43 AM EDT, 42 minutes before
WVZ025-026-111700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1139 AM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 AT 1135 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MINGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA. THE LINE WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CROSS LOGAN AND BOONE COUNTIES BY 1 PM. BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR WILL ACCOMPANY THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. END/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan | 30 min |
| Jun 11, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 29 min |
| Jun 11, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 41 min |
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.