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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Charleston, WV

July 2, 1996Cabell County, Lincoln County, Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT for Cabell County, Lincoln County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 2, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 1996, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cabell County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Wayne County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 385 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1326 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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, Jul 2, 9:51 AM EDT, 5 hours 54 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
Jul 2, 4:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam	40 min
Jul 2, 8:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Putnam	29 min
Jul 2, 8:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln	27 min
Jul 2, 8:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone	48 min
Jul 2, 8:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Lincoln	3 hr
Jul 2, 10:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas	35 min
Jul 2, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Harrison, Taylor	37 min
Jul 2, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour	35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.