Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 3:16 PM EDT for Cabell County, Lincoln County, West Virginia. It was in force for 29 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 27, 1996, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabell County, WV, Lincoln County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:17 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sarah, WV | |
| May 27, 3:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Alum Creek, WV |
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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason, Putnam | 28 min |
| May 27, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 43 min |
| May 27, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 48 min |
| May 27, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 60 min |
| May 27, 4:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 4 hr |
| May 27, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 52 min |
| May 27, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 35 min |
| May 27, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 53 min |
| May 27, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 34 min |
| May 27, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter | 44 min |
| May 27, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenup | 29 min |
| May 27, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Elliott | 28 min |
| May 27, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Lawrence | 38 min |
| May 27, 3:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Martin | 25 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.