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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Charleston, WV

May 24, 1996Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 11:13 PM EDT for Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 47 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, 11:13 PM EDT (03:13 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1996, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 186 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

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 24, 9:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette48 min
May 24, 11:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln64 min
May 25, 2:58 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWebster3 hr
May 24, 8:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXElliott34 min
May 24, 10:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGreenup68 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.