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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Charleston, WV

August 23, 1996Meigs County, Vinton County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1996, 7:50 PM EDT for Meigs County, Vinton County, Ohio. It was in force for 25 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, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Meigs County, OH, Vinton County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 1996-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 858 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 1996-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 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
858 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1093 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 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.

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, 4 hours 47 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPerry31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 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.