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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV

June 10, 1986Madison County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1986, 6:54 PM EDT for Madison County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1986, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1986, 7:50 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Madison 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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 102259 COR
TORCMH
OHC097-102250-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
654 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 750 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

OHIO... MADISON

AT 650 PM EDT THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD IN
MADISON COUNTY MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR

IF YOU ARE TRAPPED OUTDOORS AWAY FROM SAFE SHELTER GO uTO A DITCH
OR LOW AREA.  GET AS LOW AS POSSIBLE AND PROTECT YOUR
HEAD AND CHEST.  BE AWARE OF POSSIBLE FLOODING IN DRAINAGE DITCHES
AND STORM CULVERTS.

RH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoss61 min
Jun 10, 7:38 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXFranklin62 min

Nearby

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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.