Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 21, 1999, 10:07 PM EST for Morgan County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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
- Jan 21, 1999, 10:07 PM EST (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 1999, 10:40 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morgan County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 10:35 PM EST | Hail 1 | Bishopville, 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 21, 5:29 PM EST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
529 PM EST THU JAN 21 1999
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM CHESAPEAKE OH 1.25 INCH HAIL
01/21/99 LAWRENCE
0438 PM LESAGE WV .5 INCH HAIL
01/21/99 CABELLLocal storm report, Jan 21, 5:29 PM EST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
529 PM EST THU JAN 21 1999
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM CHESAPEAKE OH 1.25 INCH HAIL
01/21/99 LAWRENCE
0438 PM LESAGE WV .5 INCH HAIL
01/21/99 CABELLSpecial weather statement, Jan 21, 5:45 PM EST, 4 hours 22 minutes before
WVZ007-008-016-018-028>030-039-047-OHZ086-220300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 545 PM EST THU JAN 21 1999 ...MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS EXPECTED THIS EVENING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT AS MUCH AS TWO INCHES OF RAIN FELL ACROSS PARTS OF THIS AREA. MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING AREAS...INCLUDING SOME ROADS...HAS BEEN REPORTED. THIS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE DURING THE EVENING. STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY RISE TO OR REMAIN NEAR BANKFULL. HOWEVER SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH THE EVENING. .END/ELW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 7:16 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Roane, Wirt | 5 hr |
| Jan 21, 7:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer, Lewis | 4 hr |
| Jan 21, 7:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 4 hr |
| Jan 22, 12:44 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:38 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Upshur | 6 hr |
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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.