Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2002, 1:51 AM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 39 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 2, 2002, 1:51 AM EDT (05:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2002, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:50 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 2, 2:01 AM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Shawnee, 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 2706 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.9
- Supercell composite
- 13.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
106 WUUS51 KRLX 020551 SVRRLX OHC127-020630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 149 AM EDT SUN JUN 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 230 AM EDT... * AT 146 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHAWNEE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. . PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
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 1, 3:39 PM EDT, 10 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:39 PM EDT, 10 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 335 PM EDT SAT JUNE 1 2002 SHORT RANGE TONIGHT-MON NIGHT... SEVERE WX MOVED THROUGH WAYNE COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. REPORTS OF HAIL...MARBLE AND DIME SIZE. ALSO HEAVY RAIN. RADAR ESTIMATES GIVING ANYWHERE FROM A QUARTER OF AN INCH TO UP TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN. OF COURSE SOME OF THIS IS PROBABLY HAIL CONTAMINATED. OTHER THAN THAT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TRAINING OVER SAME AREA. TAKING A LOOK AT THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING ACROSS THIS AREA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS JUST IN SOUTHERN AREA...LEAVING THE NORTH DRY THIS AFTERNOON. LOOKING FOR THE SAME OLD STORY FOR THE SHORT TERM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. PLAYED A BIT WITH TIMING..BUT NOT TOO MANY CHANGES COMPARED TO PREVIOUS ISSUANCE. EXTENDED RANGE (TUES-SATURDAY)... WARM SECTOR MODE WITH DIURNAL THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY. WENT WITH IDEA OF FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST WEDNESDAY AND IN THE AREA THURS-SAT. ADDED POPS ACCORDINGLY FRI-SAT PER ISC. NOT FAR FROM NUMBERS ON TEMPS OR POPS. .RLX... WV...NONE. VA...NONE. KY...NONE. OH...NONE. .END / KS + TRM
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 1, 8:03 PM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
ZCZC CRWLSRRLX DEF
TTAA00 KCRW DDHHMM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
803 PM EDT SAT JUN 01 2002
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
801 PM FLATWOODS KY 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/01/02 GREENUP EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
746 PM AND 801 PM
NWUS51 KRLX 020003
LSRRLX
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0803 PM EDT SAT JUN 01 2002
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0801 PM FLATWOODS KY 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/01/02 GREENUP EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0746 PM AND 0801 PMLocal storm report, Jun 1, 8:08 PM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0808 PM EDT SAT JUN 01 2002
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0806 PM ASHLAND KY 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/01/02 BOYD EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0751 PM AND 0806 PMLocal storm report, Jun 1, 8:12 PM EDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0812 PM EDT SAT JUN 01 2002
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0808 PM ASHLAND KY .50 INCH HAIL
06/01/02 BOYD EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0753 PM AND 0808 PM
0810 PM ASHLAND KY .75 INCH HAIL
06/01/02 BOYD EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0755 PM AND 0810 PMSpecial weather statement, Jun 1, 8:21 PM EDT, 5 hours 30 minutes before
KYZ105-WVZ005-006-013-020215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 821 PM EDT SAT JUN 1 2002 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THRU THE TRI STATE REGION... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE OVER CABELL...LINCOLN... WAYNE...AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO PRODUCE PEA SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL. UP TO A HALF AN INCH COULD FALL IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES...OVER THE AFOREMENTIONED AREAS. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR THE SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.
Nearby
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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.