Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Charleston, WV

May 4, 1996Meigs County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1996, 5:09 PM EDT for Meigs County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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
May 4, 1996, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Meigs County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 4, 5:40 PM EDTThunderstorm WindPomeroy, OH
May 4, 5:40 PM EDTHail 1Pomeroy, 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 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

Local storm report, May 4, 11:59 AM EDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 4, 2:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-VAZ003-004-OHZ066-067-075-076-
083>087-KYZ101>105-107-119-051200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
200 PM EDT SAT MAY 4 1996

VERY WET WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA.

RAIN HAS FALLEN OFF AND ON NEARLY EVERYWHERE AND ALMOST EVERY DAY
ACROSS THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS AND THE MIDDLE OHIO VALLEY FOR THE
PAST WEEK.  THE GROUND IS SOAKING WET.  TREES ARE ONLY BEGINNING TO
EMERGE FROM THEIR STATE OF WINTER DORMANCY...AND ARE NOT YET ABLE TO
ABSORB MUCH WATER.  THE PERSISTANT WET WEATHER INTRODUCES THE THREAT
OF WATER PROBLEMS IF SUBSTANTIAL RAIN OCCURS.

MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.

A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL TOUCH OFF THUNDERSTORMS AS IT SINKS INTO THE
AREA THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.  MANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
PRODUCE BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN.  THESE RAINS WILL CAUSE TEMPORARY RAPID
RISES IN SMALL STREAMS...AND BRIEFLY INNUNDATE ROADS AND HIGHWAYS
WITH PONDING AND FLOWING WATER.

AFTER THE FRONT PASSES LATE TONIGHT...A GENERAL RAIN IS EXPECTED.
THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO SOAK THE LAND AND KEEP STREAMS FULL.  MORE
PONDING AND FLOWING WATER ON ROADWAYS CAN BE EXPECTED.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IS CLOSELY WATCHING FOR CONDITIONS THAT
COULD RESULT IN HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE FLOODING.  PROBLEMS WOULD
BE MOST APT TO OCCUR IN AREAS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN LATE LAST
NIGHT.  ONE AREA OF CONCERN INCLUDES SOUTHEASTERN OHIO AND EXTREME
NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA.  ANOTHER AREA OF CONCERN IS NORTHEASTERN
KENTUCKY ACROSS POPULATED AREAS OF WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA...THAT
INCLUDE CHARLESTON WV...HUNTINGTON WV...AND THE SUBURBAN AREAS IN
BETWEEN.  RAINFALLS OF 1 1/4 INCH IN THREE HOURS OR 2 1/2 INCHES IN
24 HOURS COULD RESULT IN WATER PROBLEMS IN THESE AREAS OF CONCERN.
RAINFALLS OF 1 1/2 INCHES IN THREE HOURS OR 3 1/4 INCHES IN 24 HOURS
COULD CAUSE PROBLEMS ELSWHERE.

AT THIS TIME...RAINFALLS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LESS THAN THESE A2MOUNTS
DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.  HOWEVER...LISTEN TO LATER FORECASTS
OR STATEMENTS.  METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS COULD DETERIORATE LATER
ON.  BE READY SHOULD YOU BE INFORMED OF SUCH CHANGES.

EOM

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, 2:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone25 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
May 4, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson45 min
May 4, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXVinton31 min
May 4, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson50 min
May 4, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia34 min
May 4, 1:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter, Elliott42 min
May 4, 1:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence44 min
May 4, 1:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGreenup37 min
May 4, 1:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoyd35 min
May 4, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter42 min
May 4, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoyd, Carter, Lawrence40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.