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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Jackson, KY

August 17, 1993Jackson County, Ohio

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1993, 4:48 PM EDT for Jackson County, Ohio. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 17, 1993, 4:48 PM EDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1993, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 73 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 560 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
560 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KHTS 172047 RRA
SVRHTS
OHC079-172145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
448 PM EDT TUE AUG 17 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTH OHIO
 
   ...NORTH CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY
 
AT 445 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY OHIO. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE
SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALLb POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
END/SALAZAR

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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.