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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Charleston, WV

September 20, 2000Jackson County, Vinton County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 20, 2000, 9:21 PM EDT for Jackson County, Vinton County, Ohio. It was in force for 54 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: Sep 20, 2000, 9:21 PM EDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 20, 2000, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 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 01:20 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
Sep 20, 10:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Creola, OH	Numerous tree limbs of 3 to 5 inches in diameter were snapped off.

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
Sep 20, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 579 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 628 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 807 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 15.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KRLX 210124
SVRCRW
OHC009-079-163-210215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
921 PM EDT WED SEP 20 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN OHIO...
  ATHENS COUNTY IN OHIO...
  VINTON COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT...

* AT 920 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR LANCASTER ON SOUTHWEST TO AROUND 
CHILLICOTHE.  THESE STORMS ARE RACING EAST NEAR 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...WELLSTON...MCARTHUR...
  LAKE HOPE STATE PARK...ATHENS...ALBANY...AND JACKSON.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING 
WIND GUSTS ON THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE 
BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.

$$

LATH...LON 3976 8262 3903 8355 3893 8266 3919 8229
          3924 8204 3940 8189

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 20, 8:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	67 min
Sep 20, 9:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens	54 min
Sep 20, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan	45 min
Sep 20, 10:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	56 min
Sep 20, 10:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Washington	56 min
Sep 20, 10:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs	56 min

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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.