Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1990, 9:03 PM EDT for Clay County, Kentucky. It was in force for 12 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1990, 9:03 PM EDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1990, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, KY
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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
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 22, 6:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
KYZ008-222330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 625 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUKCY UNTIL 1100 PM EDT... AT 615 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED A 30 MILES WIDE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON..THROUGH THE LEXINGTON METRO AREA...TO 45 MILES WEST OF SOMERSET. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AND WILL MOVE INTO JACKSON...LEE...OWSLEY AND CLAY COUNTIES...25 MILES WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF JACKSON...BY AROUND 700 PM. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...AND REMAIN INSIDE UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED YOUR LOCATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. SMITH
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 6:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
KYZ008-222330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 625 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUKCY UNTIL 1200 MIDNIGHT EDT... AT 615 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED A 30 MILES WIDE BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON..THROUGH THE LEXINGTON METRO AREA...TO 45 MILES WEST OF SOMERSET. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AND WILL MOVE INTO JACKSON...LEE...OWSLEY AND CLAY COUNTIES...25 MILES WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF JACKSON...BY AROUND 700 PM. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...AND REMAIN INSIDE UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED YOUR LOCATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ...CORRECTED FOR SEVERE WATCH TIMES... SMITH
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 7:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
KYZ008-230030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 720 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY UNTIL 12 AM EDT... AT 715 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 40 MILES WEST OF JACKSON...TO NEAR SOMERSET KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO JACKSON...CLAY AND LEE COUNTIES BY AROUND 745 PM EDT. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF MIDDLESBORO IN BELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND BY 800 PM IT MOVE INTO WESTERN LETCHER COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SEEK SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...AND REMAIN INSIDE UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED YOUR LOCATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 8:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay | 43 min |
| Jun 22, 8:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Leslie | 43 min |
| Jun 22, 9:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Perry | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher | 42 min |
| Jun 22, 9:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Knott | 49 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.