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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV

April 10, 1992Ross County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 10, 1992, 4:39 PM EDT for Ross County, Ohio. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 1992, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 1992, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Ross County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 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 102042
SVRCMH
OHC141-102145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
439 PM EDT FRI APR 10 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...ROSS COUNTY
 
AT 440 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN ROSS COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND MOVE THOUGH THE CITIES OF FRANKFORT
BAINBRIDGE AND CHILLICOTHE BY 5PM AND 515 PM.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
RAMEY

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 10, 4:17 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

OHZ008-OHZ009-102100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
415 PM EDT FRI APR 10 1992

AT 410 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF
THUNDERSTORMS FROM GREENE COUNTY THROUGH CLINTON COUNTY TO HIGHLAND
COUNTY OF OHIO MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR WILMINGTON IN CLINTON COUNTY AND
IN NORTHWEST HIGHLAND COUNTY.  THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED STRONG
WINDS WITH SPEEDS OVER 50 MILES AN HOUR AND HAIL EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON.

THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO WESTERN PIKE AND WESTERN ADAMS
COUNTIES OF SOUTNERN OHIO AROUND 430 PM EDT.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY
WINDS NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR AND POSSIBLE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AS THESE STORM PASS.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

HATFIELD

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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.