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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV

February 15, 1992Fairfield County, Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1992-02-15Temperature 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 1992-02-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 333 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 3:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMarion49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.