Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Charleston, WV

June 24, 1996Braxton County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1996, 4:36 PM EDT for Braxton County, West Virginia. It was in force for 54 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 24, 1996, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Braxton County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1157 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1157 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
910 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 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 24, 12:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour43 min
Jun 24, 12:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMcDowell68 min
Jun 24, 12:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMcDowell2 hr
Jun 24, 12:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette57 min
Jun 24, 12:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXNicholas53 min
Jun 24, 1:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXUpshur64 min
Jun 24, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson52 min
Jun 24, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoane54 min
Jun 24, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMingo61 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPleasants, Wood58 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTyler58 min
Jun 24, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLewis48 min
Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Mason59 min
Jun 24, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne60 min
Jun 24, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell66 min
Jun 24, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha54 min
Jun 24, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPutnam62 min
Jun 24, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln57 min
Jun 24, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour, Randolph, Upshur69 min
Jun 24, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCalhoun, Roane38 min
Jun 24, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXNicholas, Webster56 min
Jun 24, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone61 min
Jun 24, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton, Clay56 min
Jun 24, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLogan, Mingo56 min
Jun 24, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPocahontas59 min
Jun 24, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWashington45 min
Jun 24, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson45 min
Jun 24, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Meigs42 min
Jun 24, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens42 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence58 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter, Greenup58 min
Jun 24, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoyd43 min
Jun 24, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence62 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.