Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Charleston, WV

August 8, 1996Ritchie County, Wirt County, Wood County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1996, 4:30 PM EDT for Ritchie County, Wirt County, Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 30 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
Aug 8, 1996, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1996, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Ritchie County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 216 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1387 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
1387 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-4 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
Aug 8, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWood35 min
Aug 8, 4:08 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWirt, Wood5 hr
Aug 8, 4:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson5 hr
Aug 8, 4:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson37 min
Aug 8, 4:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRitchie5 hr
Aug 8, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDoddridge, Harrison40 min
Aug 8, 5:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph5 hr
Aug 8, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell, Mason, Putnam33 min
Aug 8, 6:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas4 hr
Aug 8, 6:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWebster4 hr
Aug 8, 2:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPerry41 min
Aug 8, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Vinton27 min
Aug 8, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMeigs44 min
Aug 8, 4:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson5 hr

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.