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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV

April 25, 1989Licking County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1989, 12:07 PM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 38 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: Apr 25, 1989, 12:07 PM EDT (16:07 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 1989, 12:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Licking County, OH

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 25, 12:10 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Licking, 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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 339 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -256 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1097 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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, Apr 25, 12:02 PM EDT, 5 minutes 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
Apr 25, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood	66 min
Apr 25, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Roane	56 min
Apr 25, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Clay	69 min
Apr 25, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gilmer, Ritchie	61 min
Apr 25, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Greenbrier	48 min
Apr 25, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton	64 min
Apr 25, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Webster	65 min
Apr 25, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	69 min
Apr 25, 10:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Licking, Perry	40 min
Apr 25, 11:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Delaware	25 min
Apr 25, 1:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Licking	39 min
Apr 25, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Muskingum	28 min
Apr 25, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Perry	40 min
Apr 25, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Morgan	42 min
Apr 25, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	50 min
Apr 25, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ross	68 min
Apr 25, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ross	66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ohio, 1989 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.