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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Charleston, WV

August 5, 1995Cabell County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Aug 5, 1995, 7:33 PM EDT for Cabell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 1995, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1995, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Cabell County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 23 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 1995-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 417 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 1995-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 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
417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1121 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 052333
TORCRW
WVC011-060000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
733 PM EDT SAT AUG 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN CABELL COUNTY
 
AT 732 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER CABELL COUNTY
SOUTH OF ONA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTaylor51 min
Aug 5, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGilmer, Lewis36 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.