Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 1989, 9:00 PM EDT for Preston County, West Virginia; Garrett County, Maryland. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 27, 1989, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1989, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Garrett County, MD, Preston County, WV
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Garrett, MD |
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Marion, Monongalia | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Preston | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Randolph, Tucker, Upshur | 56 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in West Virginia, 1989Tornado Warnings in Maryland, 1989Every tornado warning in 1989Tornadoes 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.