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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Charleston, WV

July 12, 2003Meigs County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2003, 4:31 PM EDT for Meigs County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 12, 2003, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meigs County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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.

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 12, 12:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KRLX 122033
SVRRLX
OHC105-122115-
/NEW.KRLX.SV.W.ETN#.122031-122115/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
431 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MEIGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT...

* AT 430 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A         
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN VINTON COUNTY MOVING               
  SOUTH-SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...POMEROY...RACINE...
  RUTLAND AND MASON.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 3918 8182 3898 8183 3890 8184 3890 8190
          3898 8194 3902 8202 3896 8209 3900 8210
          3901 8233 3920 8212

$$

KF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	28 min
Jul 12, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	37 min
Jul 12, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens	12 min
Jul 12, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	43 min
Jul 12, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Vinton	28 min
Jul 12, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs	42 min
Jul 12, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	49 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.