Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Charleston, WV

June 24, 1996Barbour County, Randolph County, Upshur County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1996, 6:21 PM EDT for Barbour County, Randolph County, Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 69 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 24, 1996, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Barbour County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Upshur County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:22 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 24, 6:25 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Elkins, WV

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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 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.

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 24, 5:56 PM EDT, 25 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 24, 12:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour	43 min
Jun 24, 12:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	68 min
Jun 24, 12:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell	2 hr
Jun 24, 12:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	57 min
Jun 24, 12:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas	53 min
Jun 24, 1:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Upshur	64 min
Jun 24, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	52 min
Jun 24, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Roane	54 min
Jun 24, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mingo	61 min
Jun 24, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton	54 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Wood	58 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Tyler	58 min
Jun 24, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lewis	48 min
Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason	59 min
Jun 24, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	60 min
Jun 24, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell	66 min
Jun 24, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	54 min
Jun 24, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Putnam	62 min
Jun 24, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln	57 min
Jun 24, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Roane	38 min
Jun 24, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas, Webster	56 min
Jun 24, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone	61 min
Jun 24, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Clay	56 min
Jun 24, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Logan, Mingo	56 min
Jun 24, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	59 min
Jun 24, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	45 min
Jun 24, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	45 min
Jun 24, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Meigs	42 min
Jun 24, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens	42 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	58 min
Jun 24, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Carter, Greenup	58 min
Jun 24, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boyd	43 min
Jun 24, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 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.