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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2006, 6:14 PM EDT for Cabell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 31 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
- Jul 21, 2006, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2006, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cabell County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1181 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 21, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 418 AM EDT FRI JUL 21 2006 KYZ101>103-105-OHZ087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005-006-013-015-024>026- 033>036-220800- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN- WAYNE-CABELL-LINCOLN-KANAWHA-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-MCDOWELL-WYOMING- RALEIGH-FAYETTE- 418 AM EDT FRI JUL 21 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXITS ACROSS NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND WEST. HOWEVER...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD MOVE FURTHER EAST OVER SOUTHEAST OHIO AND SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING...FROM SCATTERED SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL IS A POSSIBILITY ON SATURDAY...WITH FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. A FLOOD WATCH MAY BE REQUIRED. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS SITUATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. OHZ066-067-075-076-083>086-WVZ007>011-014-016>020-027>032-037>040- 046-047-220800- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA- MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-PUTNAM-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN- RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR- NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 418 AM EDT FRI JUL 21 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LOCALIZED DOWNPOURS COULD FORM THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... FROM SCATTERED SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL IS A POSSIBILITY ON SATURDAY...WITH FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE. A FLOOD WATCH MAY BE REQUIRED. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS SITUATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. ROCHE
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 11:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Roane | 48 min |
| Jul 21, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour | 33 min |
| Jul 21, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 35 min |
| Jul 21, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 42 min |
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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.