Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 3:33 PM EDT for Preston County, West Virginia. It was in force for 57 min. 3 reports 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
- Jun 14, 1996, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1996, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Preston County, WV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceton Mills, WV | |
| Jun 14, 4:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Albright, WV | |
| Jun 14, 4:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Terra Alta, 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 9:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 12:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 1:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 2:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 26 min |
| Jun 14, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 67 min |
| Jun 14, 7:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 56 min |
| Jun 14, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Columbiana | 61 min |
| Jun 14, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 5:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Preston | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Marshall | 40 min |
| Jun 14, 7:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Preston | 3 hr |
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.