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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Charleston, WV

June 9, 1996Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1996, 7:49 PM EDT for Wayne 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
Jun 9, 1996, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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 1996-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 132 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
132 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 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
Jun 8, 9:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPutnam117 min
Jun 9, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell45 min
Jun 8, 8:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMeigs43 min
Jun 9, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia68 min
Jun 9, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMeigs30 min
Jun 9, 7:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXVinton3 hr
Jun 9, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia30 min
Jun 8, 10:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXJohnson3 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.