Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Charleston, WV

June 12, 2001Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2001, 8:09 PM EDT for Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 36 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: Jun 12, 2001, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2001, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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
Jun 12, 8:22 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Marietta, 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 444 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KRLX 130010
SVRRLX
OHC167-130045-
/NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0129.130009-130045/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
809 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT...

* AT 759 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOWELL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH INCLUDE...CHURCHFORD...WATERFORD...AND  
  WATERTOWN.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE
LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIArL SHELTER UNTIL THE
STORM PASSES.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3957 8152 3942 8163 3943 8148 3939 8133
          3948 8115

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.

NWS Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 12, 7:40 PM EDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 7:40 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
740 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001

QUICK UPDATE TO ADD CHANCE OF SHOWERS/TSTMS TONIGHT ACROSS ALL BUT
EXTREME SRN WV AND SW VA ZONES. NEW CELLS CONT TO FIRE TO SOUTH OF
TSTMS ACROSS OH AND NRN WV. ALSO RAISED POPS A BIT ACROSS THE NRN
HALF OF CWA FOR TONIGHT.

NO OTHER CHANGES PLANNED.

.RLX...
WV...NONE.
VA...NONE.
KY...NONE.
OH...NONE.

.END/ZINN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 12, 7:50 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0750 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2001

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0748 PM    PETROLEUM                 WV   PEA SIZE HAIL
06/12/01   RITCHIE                        EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                    5                      0733 PM  AND  0748 PM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs	45 min
Jun 12, 8:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Vinton	3 hr
Jun 12, 8:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	3 hr
Jun 12, 8:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.