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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Blacksburg, VA

June 8, 1995Mercer County, West Virginia

NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT for Mercer County, West Virginia. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Blacksburg, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Mercer County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2055 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

NWS Blacksburg, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 2:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
240 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995

DISCUSSION...
ATTM...FEW TSTMS WV FROM NW CRW TO GREENBRIER CO. A FEW WEAK CELLS
JUST STARTING BOTETOURT AND ALLEGHANY...HOWEVER...VERY WEAK. SFC
FRONT HARD TO PLACE. PROB ABT S OH TO MASON-DIXON OR THEREABOUTS AT
ABT 15Z.

ALOFT...HGTS CONT TO RISE IN RESPONSE TO WESTERN CUT-OFF PROP E. SFC
BACKDOOR FRONT SHUD HAVE NO PROB MAKING S OF VA...WITH CLASSIC UA
CONFIG FOR WEDGEING/DAMMING TYPE SCENERIO...SUGGEST AGEOSTROPHIC
COMPONENT ASSOCIATED WITH CANADIAN MARITIME ENTRANCE REGION WILL AID
IN SFC HIGH AND PUSH OF BACKDOOR SOUTH.

QUESTION NOW BECOMES...HOW MUCH CLOUDINESS...AT LEAST FOR WESTERN
PORTION CWA LATER HALF OF FCST PD. IF YOU BLV THE NGM...(LOOKING AT
PCGRIDDS CROSSECTION)...BEST UVV/S THROUGH ROA ABT 00Z...THEN SC/ING
UP AFTER FROPA INTO FRI. POSSIBLY A LIT FAST...HOWEVER...WE SHUD GET
INTO OVRRNG PATTERN SOONER OR LATER AND NGM SUGGESTING BY 42-48 HRS
THAT OVRRNG IN FULL SWING.

A QUICK LOOK AT LO LVL QN VECTORS SUGGEST FRONTOGENETIC FORCING
KICKING IN PRETTY WELL BY 36-48 HOURS AS WARM AIR STARTS IT PUSH BACK
IN EARNEST. ISENTROPICALLY...LIFT STARTS AS WELL AT THIS TIME.
SO.H..CERTAINLY APPEARS WE/LL HAVE TO DEAL WITH CLDS (PSBLY CHC POP)
BY THAT TIME IF NOT WELL BEFORE. OBVIOUSLY TEMPS A PROB AS
WELL...DEPENDING ON CLDS. WOULD BE TEMPTED TO CUT BACK ON MAXES WITH
THIS SCENRIO.

KANE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 11:43 AM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Botetourt	52 min
Jun 8, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford	45 min
Jun 8, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Giles	41 min
Jun 8, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	65 min
Jun 8, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Montgomery	43 min
Jun 8, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Montgomery, Pulaski	52 min
Jun 8, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Mercer, Summers	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1995 Every 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.