Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1989, 6:50 PM EDT for Harrison County, Lewis County, Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1989, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1989, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Upshur County, WV
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 4:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA 400 PM EDT MON JUN 12 1989 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE TRI STATE... AT 400 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN OHIO FROM ZANESVILLE SOUTH TO NEAR HUNTINGTON AND IN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY FROM JUST SOUTH OF PORTSMOUTH OHIO WEST TO LEXINGTON. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY OHIO AND IN LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING JUST NORTH OF EAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT IN PORTIONS OF OHIO AND KENTUCKY SO BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER WITH THE APPROACH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS|. SOME COULD CONTAIN HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. HARRISON...
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 5:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 5:45 PM EDT MON JUN 12 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR A LARGE PART OF WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 11:00 PM THIS EVENING... AT 5:45 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR NEW MARTINSVILLE WEST VIRGINIA SOUTHWEST TO NEAR HUNTINGTON. THE LARGEST STORM WAS 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARKERSBURG. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 TEN MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM MAY HAVE SOME HAIL..FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTING..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ARE URGED TO STAY ALERT AND LISTEN TO COMMERCIAL RADIO..TV..OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. END/PURDY
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 6:18 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA 615 PM EDT MON JUN 12 1989 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MASON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA HAS EXPIRED... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY SOUTHERN OHIO AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT MOVED THROUGH MASON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA AND PRODUCED HAIL STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN IS NOW IS CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA AND MOVING EAST. AS THIS STORM MOVED THROUGH THE COUNTY NUMEROUS TREES WERE BLOWN OVER ON RT. 62 AND ON JERICHO RD. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE SCATTERED ACROSS THE REGION AND THERE REMAINS THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER D EVELOPING AGAIN THIS EVENING. HATFIELD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Jackson, Roane | 68 min |
| Jun 12, 6:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Ritchie | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Webster | 55 min |
| Jun 12, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Preston | 61 min |
| Jun 12, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Morgan | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West Virginia, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.