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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Charleston, WV

June 20, 1995Gilmer County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 7:59 PM EDT for Gilmer County, West Virginia. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1995, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Gilmer County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1995-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 40 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1995-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
40 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-243 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 210004 COR
SVRCRW
WVC021-210045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
759 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......

IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA

   ...GILMER COUNTY

DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICTING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTHWESTERN BRAXTON COUNTY ABOUT TO ENTER GILMER COUNTY. THE STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 TO 25 MPH AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE JUST NORTH OF
NORMANTOWN BETWEEN 830 PM AND 845 PM. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED GOLFBALL
SIZE HAIL WEBSTER AND BRAXTON COUNTY.
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.


SITES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXNicholas39 min
Jun 20, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWebster39 min
Jun 20, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton62 min
Jun 20, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXClay25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.