Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1993, 6:10 PM EDT for Delaware County, Ohio. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 1993, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1993, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Delaware County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1258 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 20, 2:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-008-OHZ008-009-201930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 220PM EDT TUE APR 20 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OHIO UNTIL 7PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR MUCH OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OHIO UNTIL 7PM EDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING. THE AREA COVERED BY THE WATCH INCLUDES THE OHIO COUNTY OF ADAMS..JUST WEST OF PORTSMOUTH. AROUND THE AREA AT THIS TIME..RADAR INDICATED SOME VERY LIGHT SHOWERS STRETCHING FROM SOUTHERN MEIGS COUNTY OHIO SOUTH TO BETWEEN HUNTINGTON AND IRONTON SOUTHWARD AND THROUGH PORTIONS OF BOYD..CARTER AND NORTHERN ELLOITT COUNTIES IN NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY. THESE LIGHT SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND ANYONE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR EARLY TONIGHT SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND BE READY TO MOVE INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 430PM UNLESS THE SITUATION DEVELOPS SOONER THAN THAT. END/DG
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 2:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-008-OHZ008-009-201930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 220PM EDT TUE APR 20 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OHIO UNTIL 7PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR MUCH OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OHIO UNTIL 7PM EDT THIS TUESDAY EVENING. THE AREA COVERED BY THE WATCH INCLUDES THE OHIO COUNTY OF ADAMS..JUST WEST OF PORTSMOUTH. AROUND THE AREA AT THIS TIME..RADAR INDICATED SOME VERY LIGHT SHOWERS STRETCHING FROM SOUTHERN MEIGS COUNTY OHIO SOUTH TO BETWEEN HUNTINGTON AND IRONTON SOUTHWARD AND THROUGH PORTIONS OF BOYD..CARTER AND NORTHERN ELLOITT COUNTIES IN NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY. THESE LIGHT SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND ANYONE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR EARLY TONIGHT SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND BE READY TO MOVE INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 430PM UNLESS THE SITUATION DEVELOPS SOONER THAN THAT. END/DG
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 4:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-008-OHZ008-009-202300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 420PM EDT TUE APR 20 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OHIO UNTIL 7PM EDT... AT 410PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR AND SATELLITE INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHCENTRAL OHIO... NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL APPEARED TO BE OVER SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY WV AND EXTREME NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY OHIO. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WAS EAST AT AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR. MOST RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH 4PM WERE LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH WITH NEARLY THREE TENTHS REPORTED FROM A SPOTTER IN CENTRAL ADAMS COUNTY OHIO FROM THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED THROUGH THE COUNTY AROUND 315 PM. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS EVENING AND ANYONE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND BE READY TO MOVE INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 620PM UNLESS CONDITIONS WORSEN. END/DG
Special weather statement, Apr 20, 4:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-008-OHZ008-009-202300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 420PM EDT TUE APR 20 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN OHIO UNTIL 7PM EDT... AT 410PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR AND SATELLITE INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHCENTRAL OHIO... NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL APPEARED TO BE OVER SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY WV AND EXTREME NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY OHIO. MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WAS EAST AT AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR. MOST RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH 4PM WERE LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF AN INCH WITH NEARLY THREE TENTHS REPORTED FROM A SPOTTER IN CENTRAL ADAMS COUNTY OHIO FROM THE HEAVY THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED THROUGH THE COUNTY AROUND 315 PM. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE AREA LATER THIS EVENING AND ANYONE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND BE READY TO MOVE INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 620PM UNLESS CONDITIONS WORSEN. END/DG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Franklin, Madison | 66 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.