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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Charleston, WV

April 9, 1991Fayette County, Pickaway County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 9, 1991, 4:49 PM EDT for Fayette County, Pickaway County, Ohio. It was in force for 56 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 9, 1991, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 9, 1991, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Fayette County, OH, Pickaway County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 9, 5:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Pickaway, OH
Apr 9, 5:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Fayette, OH

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 471 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 634 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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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, Apr 9, 11:22 AM EDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 9, 4:34 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

KYZ006-008-OHZ008-009-WVZ003-092200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
435PM EDT TUE APR 09 1991

...TORNADO WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT FOR NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA..UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL OHIO...

TORNADO WATCHES HAVE BEEN POSTED FOR ALL OF THE TRI-STATE AREA FOR
THIS EVENING AND EARLY TONIGHT. AT 430PM..WEATHER RADARS INDICATED
A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM JUST SOUTHEAST
OF DAYTON OHIO..THROUGH SOUTHCENTRAL OHIO..INTO EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
NEAR LONDON. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 25 MILES AN
HOUR WHILE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT
AROUND THE SAME SPEED.

THE STORMS WILL BE CROSSING THE TRI-STATE AREA DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL
HOURS. WHILE THERE HAS BEEN NO SEVERE WEATHER REPORTED IN TRI-STATE AREA
AS OF 430PM..SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND
 HAIL AS THEY MOVED ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL OHIO AND CENTRAL
KENTUCKY EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. THE POTENTIAL FOR THESE STORMS
TO HAVE HEAVY DOWNPOURS..STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT AS THEY MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST KENTUCKY..WESTERN
WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHCENTRAL OHIO.

REMEMBER..A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND
AROUND THE WATCH AREA. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDITIONS
WARRANT.

END/DG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 9, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Putnam	54 min
Apr 9, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha	61 min
Apr 9, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan, Mingo	59 min
Apr 9, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Clay, Roane	38 min
Apr 9, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas	38 min
Apr 9, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Raleigh	67 min
Apr 9, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lewis, Upshur	82 min
Apr 9, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Gilmer, Ritchie	63 min
Apr 9, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Webster	63 min
Apr 9, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	46 min
Apr 9, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph	99 min
Apr 9, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Harrison	99 min
Apr 9, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Marion, Taylor	91 min
Apr 9, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Tucker	91 min
Apr 9, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Monongalia, Preston	2 hr
Apr 9, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ross	65 min
Apr 9, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Franklin	61 min
Apr 9, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fairfield, Licking	64 min
Apr 9, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Perry	66 min
Apr 9, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Muskingum	59 min
Apr 9, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Hocking, Vinton	65 min
Apr 9, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan	65 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.