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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2009, 8:28 AM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 2009, 8:28 AM EDT (12:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2009, 9:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Athens County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:30 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 3316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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 19, 6:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 6:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 4:25 AM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 425 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 2009 OHZ066-067-075-076-083>086-WVZ007>011-016>020-029>032-200830- PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-MASON- JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE- GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR- 425 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK THAT THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY TONIGHT...COULD CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING COULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM IF REPETITIVE THUNDERSTORMS BECOME MORE LIKELY...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY HAVE TO BE ISSUED FOR SMALL STREAMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY COULD CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. KYZ101>103-105-OHZ087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005-006-013>015-024>028-033>040- 046-047-200830- GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-WAYNE- CABELL-LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-MINGO-LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON- MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR- POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH- 425 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY TONIGHT...COULD CONTAIN DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY COULD CONTAIN LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. KTB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge and 17 more | 21 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Perry | 62 min |
| Jun 19, 9:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Athens | 3 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.