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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Charleston, WV

May 28, 1996Boone County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 8:14 PM EDT for Boone County, West Virginia. It was in force for 61 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, 8:14 PM EDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1996, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Boone County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 215 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 157 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
47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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 28, 8:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette, Kanawha, Raleigh68 min
May 28, 8:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette, Kanawha, Raleigh64 min
May 28, 8:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha3 hr
May 28, 11:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.