Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Charleston, WV

May 24, 1996Greenup County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 10:07 PM EDT for Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 68 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 24, 1996, 10:07 PM EDT (02:07 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1996, 11:15 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Greenup County, KY

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 250207
SVRCRW
KYC089-250315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1007 PM EDT FRI MAY 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN EAST KENTUCKY
 
   ...GREENUP COUNTY
 
AT 1005 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
OVER EASTERN SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO THAT WAS TRACKING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES
AN HOUR. THIS STORM IS FORECASTED TO TRACK ACROSS CENTRAL GREENUP
COUNTY.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXElliott34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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.