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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Charleston, WV

July 30, 1996Athens County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jul 30, 1996, 3:07 PM EDT for Athens County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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: Jul 30, 1996, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Athens County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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
Jul 30, 3:20 PM EDT	Hail 1	Nelsonville, OH
Jul 30, 3:25 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Millfield, OH

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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 301908
TORCRW
OHC009-301945-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
307 PM EDT TUE JUL 30 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...ATHENS COUNTY
 
AT 308 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR MINERAL MOVING TO THE
EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR FOX LAKE AND
HEBBARDSVILLE BETWEEN 315 AND 330 PM.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH A4S A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
JAP/RPY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan	36 min
Jul 30, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens	39 min
Jul 30, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	27 min
Jul 30, 4:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	2 hr
Jul 30, 4:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	2 hr

Nearby

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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.