Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1989, 2:32 PM EDT for Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1989, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1989, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Muskingum County, OH
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 3298 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 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, Apr 25, 12:02 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Apr 25, 1:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 115 PM EDT TUE APR 25 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A PORTION OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA FROM 115 PM UNTIL 600 PM... COUNTIES IN THIS AREA INCLUDE...FAYETTE...GREENBRIER...MONROE..RALEIGH ...SUMMERS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP IN AND AROUND THIS AREA. PERSONS IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE ON THEI LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR FURTHUR STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 2:08 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 200 PM EDT TUE APR 25 1989 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 600 PM EDT. A WATCH MEANS THAT A POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SEVERE WEATHER. WEST VIRGINIA COUNTIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE... BRAXTON...CALHOUN...CLAY...FAYETTE...GILMER...GRANT...GREENBRIER... JACKSON...KANAWHA...LEWIS...MONROE...NICHOLAS...PENDLETON... POCAHONTAS...RALEIGH...RANDOLPH...ROANE...SUMMERS...UPSHUR...WEBSTER. AT THIS TIME...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM NORTHWEST OF LEWISBURG WV NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH ELKINS WV INTO THE WESTERN MARYLAND PANHANDLE. AT THE SOUTHWESTERN TIP OF THE LINE...NEAR RAINELLE WV... RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. MUCH OF THE LINE IS WEAKENING. WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THE LINE INCLUDED NUMEROUS REPORTS OF HAIL... GUSTY WIND...AND BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN WITH LOCAL ACCUMULATIONS UP TO ABOUT AN INCH. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN OHIO. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD EXTREME NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE WEATHER SERVICE IS KEEPING CLOSE WATCH ON THIS AREA. LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. END/PARKE
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, 12:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Licking | 38 min |
| Apr 25, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Licking | 39 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
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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.