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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV

March 10, 1986Fayette County, Madison County, Pickaway County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 1986, 5:35 PM EST for Fayette County, Madison County, Pickaway County, Ohio. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 10, 1986, 5:35 PM EST (22:35 UTC)
Expired
Mar 10, 1986, 6:40 PM EST
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, OH, Madison County, OH, Pickaway 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 1986-03-10Temperature 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 1986-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 422 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
422 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
421 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 102238
TORCMH
OHC047-149-097-102340-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
535 PM EST MON MAR 10 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 640 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

OHIO..MADISON..FAYETTE AND PICKAWAY

AT 530 PM EST TORNADOS WERE REPORTED IN THESE COUNTIES MOVING
EAST AT 50 MPH.

SIMPSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 10, 5:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette, Madison67 min
Mar 10, 5:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMarion, Union65 min
Mar 10, 5:44 PM ESTTornado WarningRLXFranklin61 min
Mar 10, 6:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFairfield, Licking60 min
Mar 10, 6:18 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPerry62 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Ohio, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes 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.