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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Charleston, WV

May 4, 1996Pocahontas County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1996, 7:55 PM EDT for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 50 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, 7:55 PM EDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Pocahontas County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1996-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1008 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 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.

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, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson45 min
May 4, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXVinton31 min
May 4, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMeigs51 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 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.