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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2006, 3:31 PM EDT for Mingo County, West Virginia. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 20, 2006, 3:31 PM EDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2006, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mingo County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 378 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1368 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 20, 3:18 PM EDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 3:18 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 400 AM EDT TUE JUN 20 2006 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011- 013>020-024>040-046-047-211000- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON- JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN- WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-LINCOLN-PUTNAM- KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE- CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-MCDOWELL-WYOMING- RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS- RANDOLPH- 400 AM EDT TUE JUN 20 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE STORMS MAINLY ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP AS A WARM FRONT PUSHES NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 20, 3:19 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 33 min |
| Jun 20, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan | 32 min |
| Jun 20, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan | 28 min |
| Jun 20, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 27 min |
| Jun 20, 5:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 24 min |
| Jun 20, 5:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter | 23 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.