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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Charleston, WV

November 7, 1996Gallia County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 7:12 PM EST for Gallia County, Ohio. It was in force for 18 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: Nov 7, 1996, 7:12 PM EST (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Nov 7, 1996, 7:30 PM EST
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Gallia County, OH

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 7, 7:15 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Gallipolis, OH

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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 259 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1450 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 497 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 539 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, Nov 7, 4:20 PM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 7, 4:22 PM EST, 2 hours 50 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
Nov 8, 1:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Raleigh	50 min
Nov 8, 1:53 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	52 min
Nov 8, 2:11 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas	49 min
Nov 8, 2:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Webster	41 min
Nov 8, 2:55 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lewis, Upshur	50 min
Nov 8, 10:26 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Pocahontas, Randolph	4 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.