Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1997, 1:30 PM EDT for Jackson County, Ohio. It was in force for 15 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1997, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1997, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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 171731 RRA SVRCRW OHC079-171745- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 130 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTY AT 128 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER OAK HILL IN SOUTHEAST JACKSON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL ENTER WESTERN GALLIA COUNTY BY 140 PM. OTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS GALLIA 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, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Meigs | 55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.