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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Charleston, WV

May 27, 1996Greenup County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 2:16 PM EDT for Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 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 27, 1996, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1996, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
29 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 18:17 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 12:00Z, 6.3 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 27, 12:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMason, Putnam28 min
May 27, 2:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne43 min
May 27, 3:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell, Lincoln29 min
May 27, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPutnam48 min
May 27, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha60 min
May 27, 4:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXLogan4 hr
May 27, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXNicholas52 min
May 27, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette35 min
May 27, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPocahontas53 min
May 27, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWebster34 min
May 27, 2:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter44 min
May 27, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXElliott28 min
May 27, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoyd, Lawrence38 min
May 27, 3:20 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXMartin25 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.