Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1997, 1:05 PM EDT for Gallia County, Meigs County, Ohio. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 17, 1997, 1:05 PM EDT (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1997, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gallia County, OH, Meigs County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 1:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Chester, 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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 171706 RRA SVRCRW OHC053-105-171800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 105 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...GALLIA COUNTY...MEIGS COUNTY AT 102 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN VINTON COUNTY AND ENTERING NORTHERN GALLIA COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND HAS HAD A HISTORY OF KNOCKING DOWN TREES IN JACKSON COUNTY. << CALL TO ACTION >> SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 12:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Perry | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 12:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Vinton | 59 min |
| Aug 17, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 15 min |
| Aug 17, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Washington | 57 min |
| Aug 17, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 54 min |
| Aug 17, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 55 min |
| Aug 17, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens | 55 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.