Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 1992, 5:01 PM EST for Fairfield County, Ohio. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1992, 5:01 PM EST (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1992, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fairfield County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 333 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCMH 152201 SVRCMH OHC045-152300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH 501 PM EST SAT FEB 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...... IN CENTRAL OHIO ...FAIRFIELD COUNTY AT 5 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS IN PICKAWAY COUNTY AS THEY MOVED EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTHERN PART OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY BY 6 PM...AND THE TOWNS OF LANCASTER AND SUGAR GROVE ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...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. GERARD
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, Feb 15, 4:44 PM EST, 17 minutes before
KYZ006-008-OHZ008-009-WVZ003-212240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 440 PM EST SAT FEB 15 1992 .......SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING THE TRI STATE... AT 435 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM COLUMBUS OHIO SOUTH-SOUTHWEST TO WESTERN LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH WHILE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO WESTERN LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE ENTIRE COUNTY BY 545 PM EST. PEOPLE IN LEWIS COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AND HFOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. END/CICCONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 3:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Marion | 49 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.