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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Charleston, WV

July 10, 2000Jackson County, Vinton County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2000, 3:43 PM EDT for Jackson County, Vinton County, Ohio. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2000, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Jackson County, OH, Vinton County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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 10, 4:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamden, OH
Jul 10, 4:10 PM EDT	Hail 1	Wellston, 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 10, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 1291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

543 
WUUS51 KRLX 101943
SVRCRW
OHC079-163-102015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
343 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT...

* AT 333 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF COALTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF WELLSTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...HAMDEN.

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

LAT...LON 3917 8274 3904 8248 3904 8240 3909 8232
          3918 8232 3931 8263

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 6:04 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	3 hr
Jul 10, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	22 min
Jul 10, 4:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson	2 hr
Jul 10, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	28 min
Jul 10, 5:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia, Vinton	2 hr
Jul 10, 6:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	3 hr
Jul 10, 7:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	20 min
Jul 10, 7:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	2 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.