Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 9:27 PM EDT for Lewis County, West Virginia. It was in force for 33 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
- Jul 2, 1996, 9:27 PM EDT (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1996, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lewis County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 9:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson Mill, 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 161 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1704 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.3
- Supercell composite
- -1.6
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, 9:17 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
914 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM CLARKSBURG WV .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/96 HARRISON CLARKSBURG TV STATION
REPORTED OVER DIME SIZE
HAIL WITH WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 50 MPH WITH ROAD SIGNS
DOWN ALONG WITH TREES AND
POWER OUT IN AREA.The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 39 min |
| Jul 2, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 9:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Upshur | 33 min |
| Jul 2, 11:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 1:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 38 min |
| Jul 3, 1:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.