Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Charleston, WV

April 23, 1996Gilmer County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 23, 1996, 2:42 PM EDT for Gilmer County, West Virginia. It was in force for 48 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
Apr 23, 1996, 2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)
Expired
Apr 23, 1996, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Gilmer County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 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
Apr 23, 1:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha, Lincoln59 min
Apr 23, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMason48 min
Apr 23, 1:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell, Wayne57 min
Apr 23, 1:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Putnam, Wood57 min
Apr 23, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMingo68 min
Apr 23, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPleasants, Ritchie, Tyler60 min
Apr 23, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoane, Wirt60 min
Apr 23, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXClay37 min
Apr 23, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton, Nicholas48 min
Apr 23, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDoddridge, Harrison, Lewis56 min
Apr 23, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCalhoun56 min
Apr 23, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWebster56 min
Apr 23, 2:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXUpshur61 min
Apr 23, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour, Randolph61 min
Apr 23, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTaylor61 min
Apr 23, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Jackson, Lawrence40 min
Apr 23, 1:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWashington57 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.