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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Charleston, WV

June 10, 1986Ross County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1986, 3:49 PM EDT for Ross County, Ohio. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1986, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1986, 4:50 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Ross County, OH

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1986-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1986-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 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 KCMH 101955
SVRCMH
OHC141-102050-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
349 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 450 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

OHIO... ROSS

AT 335 PM EDT STATE PATROL REPORTED TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN
IN HIGHLAND COUNTY JUST WEST OF HILLSBORO OHIO.  THIS STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS...
DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

FENBERS

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 10, 2:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
^CRWSPSHTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
200 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 1986

...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WEST LEWIS AND ROWAN COUNTIES KENTUCKY...

AT 2 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST LEWIS
COUNTY AND IN WEST ROWAN COUNTY KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS
NORTHEAST KENTUCKY THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO CROSSING CARTER AND ELLIOTT COUNTY
BY 3 PM AND MAY MOVE INTO BOYD AND LAWRENCE COUNTY BY 4 PM.
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL RESULT IN
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND MAY CAUSE SMALL STREAM OVERFLOW...
SOME AREA OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY HAVE HAD ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN
ALLREADY THIS MORNING AND ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN IN THESE AREA COULD CAUSE
SMALL STREAM TO QUICKY OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS.

PERSONS LIVING IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD STAY ALERT AND IF FLOODING
SHOULD BECOME QLIKLEY SEEK HIGHER GROUND. YOU SHOULD NOT CROSS FLOODED
STREAMS OR ROADS. END/HANEY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 6:54 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXMadison56 min
Jun 10, 7:38 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXFranklin62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.