Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1996, 3:14 PM EDT for Marion County, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 1996, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1996, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marion County, WV, Monongalia County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 3:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Fairmont, WV |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPIT 231914 SVRPIT PAC059-WVC049-061-232000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 314 PM EDT TUE APR 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST PENNSYLVANIA ...GREENE COUNTY IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...MARION COUNTY...MONONGALIA COUNTY AT 314 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING GREEN COUNTY IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST PA. THE STORMS EXTENDED SOUTH INTO WETZEL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA AND WILL MOVE THROUGH GREENE COUNTY PA AND MARION AND MONONGALIA COUNTIES WV BY 400 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR APPLIANCES UNLESS IT'S AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DO NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall, Wetzel | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.