Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 1999, 6:06 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Ohio; Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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
- Oct 13, 1999, 6:06 PM EDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 1999, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 6:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Kitts Hill, OH | |
| Oct 13, 6:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | South Shore, KY | Dime size hail fell along Route 23 around Siloam. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne | 21 min |
| Oct 13, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha | 27 min |
| Oct 13, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Vinton | 22 min |
| Oct 13, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson | 28 min |
| Oct 13, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Meigs | 22 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1999Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999
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.