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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Charleston, WV

June 1, 2009Perry County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2009, 10:42 PM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 33 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 1, 2009, 10:42 PM EDT (02:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2009, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Perry County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 2.7 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.

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: 304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

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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, 9:42 PM EDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 9:42 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mason, Putnam	49 min
Jun 2, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason	46 min
Jun 2, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam	44 min
Jun 2, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mason	41 min
Jun 2, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wood	54 min
Jun 2, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay, Kanawha, Roane	59 min
Jun 2, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	48 min
Jun 2, 6:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Mingo	2 hr
Jun 2, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wood	72 min
Jun 2, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Logan, Mingo, Wyoming	55 min
Jun 2, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wayne	49 min
Jun 2, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln, Logan, Mingo, Wayne	47 min
Jun 2, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Tyler	50 min
Jun 2, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Lincoln, Logan, Mingo	48 min
Jun 2, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Mason, Putnam	56 min
Jun 2, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Wayne	46 min
Jun 2, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone, Fayette, Kanawha	46 min
Jun 2, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam, Wayne	53 min
Jun 2, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Roane, Wirt, Wood	40 min
Jun 2, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour, Harrison, Taylor	46 min
Jun 1, 10:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Perry	72 min
Jun 2, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Lawrence	47 min
Jun 2, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Perry	60 min
Jun 2, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan	53 min
Jun 2, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Perry	42 min
Jun 2, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan, Washington	45 min
Jun 2, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Lawrence	43 min
Jun 2, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Vinton	52 min
Jun 2, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Vinton	55 min
Jun 2, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	50 min
Jun 2, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens	48 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.