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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV

March 24, 1994Marion County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 12:12 AM EST for Marion County, Ohio. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 1994, 12:12 AM EST (05:12 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1994, 12:12 AM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 00:00Z on 1994-03-24Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1994-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
3250 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
314 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 240514
SVRCMH
OHC101-240512-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
1212 AM EST THU MAR 24 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY......
 
IN CENTRAL OHIO
 
   ...MARION COUNTY
 
AT 1210 AM EST THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN MARION COUNTY EXTENDING FROM ABOUT 5 MILES
NORTH OF MARION TO ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF MARION.
 
MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SOME OF THE COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE MARION...BELLAIRE
GARDENS...CALEDONIA AND KIRKPATRICK.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS
COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD CAUSE URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOODING.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FL$OODING IS OBSERVED.
 
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS STORM.
 
AVERY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 11:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMarion53 min
Mar 24, 1:25 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMadison65 min
Mar 24, 1:45 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFranklin60 min
Mar 24, 1:48 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDelaware57 min
Mar 24, 2:46 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLicking59 min
Mar 24, 3:20 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMuskingum55 min

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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.