Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Charleston, WV

May 4, 1996Boone County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1996, 2:35 AM EDT for Boone County, West Virginia. 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
May 4, 1996, 2:35 AM EDT (06:35 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 1996, 3:00 AM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Boone County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 040635
SVRCRW
WVC005-040700-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
235 AM EDT SAT MAY 4 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
...BOONE COUNTY
 
AT 235 AM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO BOONE COUNTY.  THE
STORM WILL CROSS ALONG RT 119 AS IT ENTERS BOONE COUNTY AND AFFECT THE
MANILA AREA AROUND 250 AM EDT.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
BELK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 1:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne36 min
May 4, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWebster54 min
May 4, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRandolph51 min
May 4, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMason32 min
May 4, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Wood52 min
May 4, 6:17 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXMason43 min
May 4, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Wirt52 min
May 4, 6:30 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXJackson30 min
May 4, 6:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha, Putnam, Roane54 min
May 4, 6:47 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXCalhoun, Ritchie43 min
May 4, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDoddridge, Gilmer30 min
May 4, 7:04 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXDoddridge41 min
May 4, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton, Lewis47 min
May 4, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXClay47 min
May 4, 7:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBarbour, Harrison, Lewis3 hr
May 4, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour, Harrison, Randolph, Upshur, Webster60 min
May 4, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXNicholas60 min
May 4, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTaylor60 min
May 4, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPocahontas50 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.