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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Charleston, WV

May 28, 1996Putnam County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 7:34 PM EDT for Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1996, 7:34 PM EDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Putnam County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-28Temperature 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 160 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 8:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBoone4 hr
May 27, 8:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXClay4 hr
May 28, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPutnam31 min
May 28, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell32 min
May 28, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha63 min
May 28, 7:40 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXPutnam35 min
May 28, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln50 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.