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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Charleston, WV

June 2, 1991Perry County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1991, 6:52 PM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1991, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1991, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Perry County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1029 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 846 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 2, 5:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

WVZ005-009-010-022225-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV
525 PM EDT SUN JUN 2 1991

...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL AND THE
POTOMAC HIGHLANDS OF WEST VIRGINIA...

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH TILL 800 PM EDT FOR NORTHWEST AND
CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA...

WEATHER RADAR AT 520 PM EDT INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
ACROSS NORTHERN LEWIS...UPSHUR...HARDY AND MINERAL COUNTIES OF
NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.

THESE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT
FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG AND GUSTY
WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. HEAVY RAINS MAY PRODUCE PONDING OF WATER ON
HIGHWAYS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER CONTACT YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

END/GAV

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

KYZ006-008-OHZ008-009-WVZ003-220000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
530PM EDT SUN JUN 2 1991

....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHERN OHIO AND WESTERN
WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 8:00PM EDT.

....SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHERN OHIO......

SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHERN OHIO.
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS TO BE
OVER WESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY OF OHIO.

THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE HAS DECREASED IN THE PAST HOUR.  STORM MOVEMENT
HAS BEEN TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH.

SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...HAIL
AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIoO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION
STATIONS FOR FURTHUR STATEMENTS.

END/COSTELLO

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 5:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Jun 2, 6:42 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 2, 6:51 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie, Wood	60 min
Jun 2, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	51 min
Jun 1, 8:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	43 min
Jun 1, 11:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Vinton	40 min
Jun 2, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Franklin	67 min
Jun 2, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ross, Vinton	56 min
Jun 2, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Vinton	48 min
Jun 2, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Delaware, Marion	68 min
Jun 2, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Franklin, Madison	63 min
Jun 2, 5:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Franklin	40 min
Jun 2, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fairfield, Licking	62 min
Jun 2, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Hocking	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1991 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.