Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at May 4, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT for Jackson County, West Virginia. It was in force for 30 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 4, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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 4, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Kenna, WV | |
| May 4, 6:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sandyville, 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 042232 TORCRW WVC035-042300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 630 PM EDT SAT MAY 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...JACKSON COUNTY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN JACKSON COUNTY 10 MPH NW OF KENNA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EASTWARD AT 40 TO 45 MPH. IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS. SITES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 1:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 36 min |
| May 4, 2:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 25 min |
| May 4, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 54 min |
| May 4, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph | 51 min |
| May 4, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 32 min |
| May 4, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Wood | 52 min |
| May 4, 6:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Mason | 43 min |
| May 4, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Wirt | 52 min |
| May 4, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Putnam, Roane | 54 min |
| May 4, 6:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Ritchie | 43 min |
| May 4, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Gilmer | 30 min |
| May 4, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 41 min |
| May 4, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Lewis | 47 min |
| May 4, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay | 47 min |
| May 4, 7:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Lewis | 3 hr |
| May 4, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison, Randolph, Upshur, Webster | 60 min |
| May 4, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 60 min |
| May 4, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Taylor | 60 min |
| May 4, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 50 min |
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.