Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 4:53 PM EDT for Nicholas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 52 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
- May 27, 1996, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nicholas County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 5:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Canvas, 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 272054 SVRCRW WVC067-272145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 453 PM EDT MON MAY 27 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...NICHOLAS COUNTY AT 450 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS NICHOLAS COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. BELK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason, Putnam | 28 min |
| May 27, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 43 min |
| May 27, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 27, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 48 min |
| May 27, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 60 min |
| May 27, 4:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 4 hr |
| May 27, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 35 min |
| May 27, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 53 min |
| May 27, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.