Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1997, 8:09 PM EDT for Jackson County, Vinton County, Ohio. It was in force for 51 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 2, 1997, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1997, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, OH, Vinton County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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 2, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson, OH | |
| Jul 2, 8:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Coalton, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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
- 1249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 030011 RRA SVRCRW OHC079-163-030100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 809 PM EDT WED JUL 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...JACKSON COUNTY...WESTERN VINTON COUNTY CHARLESTON RADAR HAS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CLIP WESTERN VINTON COUNTY NEAR EAGLE MILLS..RATCLIFFBURG..AND RICHLAND IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO JACKSON COUNTY ALSO WITHIN 15 MINUTES AND WILL AFFECT MUCH OF JACKSON COUNTY. << CALL TO ACTION >> A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED REMEMBER, SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNAD WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. END/SIPKORA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Meigs, Vinton | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 53 min |
| Jul 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 30 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.