Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 8:50 PM EDT for Ritchie County, West Virginia. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 1995, 8:50 PM EDT (00:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1995, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ritchie County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 2460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 210056 RRA SVRCRW WVC085-210145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 850 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...RITCHIE COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWEST RITCHIE COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF LAWFORD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL TRACK ACROSS THE COMMUNITY OF SMITHVILLE BY 915 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LI GHTNING...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.
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 20, 8:19 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
WVZ020-029-030-210100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 820 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... AT 817 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TO THE WEST AT AROUND 15 TO 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING TOWARD THE WEST AND WILL EFFECT THE CITY OF WESTON BETWEEN 820 AND 845 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO THE CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED. END/ROZANSKI
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 8:20 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
WVZ020-029-030-210100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 820 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 1 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... AT 817 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TO THE WEST AT AROUND 15 TO 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE MOVING TOWARD THE WEST AND WILL EFFECT THE CITY OF WESTON BETWEEN 820 AND 845 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO THE CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED. END/ROZANSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lewis | 42 min |
| Jun 20, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mingo | 47 min |
| Jun 20, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lewis | 31 min |
| Jun 20, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 35 min |
| Jun 20, 9:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 54 min |
| Jun 20, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 53 min |
| Jun 21, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Upshur | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 41 min |
| Jun 21, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison | 33 min |
| Jun 21, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Tyler | 51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.