Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1997, 9:00 PM EDT for Jackson County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 2, 1997, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1997, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 9:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Blackfork Jct, 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, 1.0 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.
719 WUUS1 KCRW 030101 RRA SVRCRW OHC079-030130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 900 PM EDT WED JUL 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN CHARLESTON IS CONINTUING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. << 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/SIKORA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Vinton | 51 min |
| 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 |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.