Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1996

Tornado Warning 9, NWS Charleston, WV

June 22, 1996Logan County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1996, 8:04 PM EDT for Logan County, West Virginia. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 22, 1996, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Logan County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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
Jun 22, 8:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Whitman, WV
Jun 22, 8:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Justice Addition, 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 230003
TORCRW
WVC045-230030-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
804 PM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...LOGAN COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LOGAN NEAR CHEIF LOGAN STATE PARK. THE ASSOCIATED STORM WAS TRACKING
SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
 
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 AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 2:23 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam	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.