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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Charleston, WV

July 2, 1996Cabell County, West Virginia; Lawrence County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 11:53 PM EDT for Cabell County, West Virginia; Lawrence County, Ohio. It was in force for 37 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, 11:53 PM EDT (03:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 1996, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lawrence County, OH, Cabell County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 3, 12:10 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Huntington, 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 289 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: 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

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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, 9:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 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.

Local storm report, Jul 2, 10:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 2, 11:30 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 2, 11:46 PM EDT, 7 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, 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, 9:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lewis	33 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 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, 1996 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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.