Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Charleston, WV

April 15, 1996Kanawha County, Lincoln County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1996, 5:12 PM EDT for Kanawha County, Lincoln County, West Virginia. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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: Apr 15, 1996, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 15, 5:15 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Garretts Bend, WV
Apr 15, 5:25 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Ruth, WV

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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 1471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 152112
SVRCRW
WVC043-039-152200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
512 PM EDT MON APR 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...LINCOLN COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...KANAWHA COUNTY
 
CHARLESTON DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
LINCOLN COUNTY NEAR HAMLIN. THERE IS ALSO A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE
PUTNAM AND KANAHWA COUNTY LINE IN KANAWHA COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE
MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
 
END/SIKORA

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.