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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Charleston, WV

July 20, 1992Madison County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1992, 3:39 PM EDT for Madison County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 20, 1992, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 1992, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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-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: 1250 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCMH 201942 COR
SVRCMH
OHC097-202030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
339 PM EDT MON JUL 20 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......

IN CENTRAL OHIO

   ...MADISON COUNTY

AT 338 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL MADISON COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF LONDON. THE
STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN
FRANKLIN COUNTY BY 415 PM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING..2.AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

SMITH

$$ CORRECTED FOR WORDING

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

Local storm report, Jul 20, 2:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
215PM EDT MON JUL 20 1992

DATE...JULY 18
TIME...420PM EDT
LOCATION...CENTRAL SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO..BETWEEN STATE ROUTES 139 AND 23
TYPE...WIND DAMAGE..TREES DOWNED ACROSS POWER LINES..SEVERAL HOMES REPORTED
ROOF DAMAGE
NO INJURIES OR DEATHS
SOURCE...STORM SPOTTERS

DATE...JULY 18
TIME...450PM EDT
LOCATION...NORTHERN MASON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA..IN THE HARTFORD AREA
TYPE...WIND DAMAGE..TREES DOWNED ACROSS POWER LINES, SEVERAL OUTBUILDINGS
DAMAGED OR COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY
NO INJURIES OR DEATHS
SOURCE...COUNTY SHERRIFF, STORM SPOTTERS

DATE...JULY 18
TIME...505PM EDT
LOCATION...EASTERN MEIGS COUNTY OHIO..2 NORTH OF APPLE GROVE
TYPE...WIND DAMAGE..TREES ACROSS POWER LINES, BARN HAD ROOF DAMAGED,
SMALL OUTBUILDING SHEARED OFF BOLTED FOUNDATION
NO INJURIES OR DEATHS
SOURCE...PUBLIC/SPOTTER REPORTS

DATE...JULY 18
TIME...735PM EDT
LOCATION...NORTHERN WAYNE AND NORTHERN CABELL COUNTIES OF WEST VIRGINIA
TYPE...WIND DAMAGE..LIGHTNING DAMAGE..TREES DOWNED ACROSS POWER LINES,
SEVERAL LIGHTNING STRIKES KNOCKED POWER OUT TO ABOUT 500-1000 RESIDENCES
NO INJURIES OR DEATHS
SOURCE...POWER COMPANY, HUNTINGTON NEWSPAPER

END/DG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 20, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Marion	58 min
Jul 20, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Delaware	55 min
Jul 20, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Licking	42 min
Jul 20, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Franklin	68 min
Jul 20, 5:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Licking	2 hr
Jul 20, 5:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Delaware	2 hr

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.