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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Charleston, WV

June 22, 1996Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 5:07 PM EDT for Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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: Jun 22, 1996, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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
Jun 22, 5:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Marietta, OH

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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 369 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1135 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants	42 min
Jun 22, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie	55 min
Jun 22, 3:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Ritchie	41 min
Jun 22, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun	31 min
Jun 22, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton	67 min
Jun 22, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	25 min
Jun 22, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas	60 min
Jun 22, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell	60 min
Jun 22, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Roane	39 min
Jun 22, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie, Wood	56 min
Jun 22, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Kanawha, Putnam	48 min
Jun 22, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln	65 min
Jun 22, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln, Logan	58 min
Jun 22, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Wayne	37 min
Jun 22, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	40 min
Jun 22, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia	48 min
Jun 22, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Carter	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.