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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Charleston, WV

August 23, 1996Perry County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1996, 5:59 PM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 31 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 23, 1996, 5:59 PM EDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Perry County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Special weather statement, Aug 23, 3:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

OHZ086-232100-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
303 PM EDT FRI AUG 23 1996

...HEAVY RAINS IN SOUTHEAST GALLIA COUNTY OHIO WILL CAUSE SOME
CREEKS TO RUN HIGH...

SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED THROUGH SOUTHEAST GALLIA COUNTY
OHIO TODAY.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS TOTALING 2 TO 2 1/2 INCHES HAVE
FALLEN.  THIS WILL PUSH SOME CREEKS TO NEAR BANKFULL LEVELS FOR A
FEW HOURS THIS AFTERNOON.  LOW SPOTS WHERE ROADS DIP NEAR CREEKS AND
STREAMS MAY BRIEFLY BE COVERED WITH WATER.  IN ADDITION SOME PONDING
OF WATER ON ROADS DUE TO POOR DRAINAGE MAY OCCUR.  PERSONS
ENCOUNTERING ANY PLACES WHERE WATER IS OVER A ROADWAY SHOULD NOT
ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH THE WATER.

END/REZEK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs, Vinton	25 min

Nearby

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.