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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Jackson, KY

May 28, 1990Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1990, 4:16 PM EDT for Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 28, 1990, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1990, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne 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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 248 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1990-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1990-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1443 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, May 28, 3:34 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
KYZ008-282035-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
335 PM EDT MON MAY 28 1990

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...

AT 325 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO THE WESTERN COUNTIES
OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN
WESTERN MORGAN COUNTY...25 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. ANOTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY...25 MILES NORTHWEST
OF MIDDLESBORO. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES
AN HOUR.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. IF YOU SEE OR HEAR
A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING YOUR LOCATION...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

THROUGH 530 PM THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST
KENTUCKY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE LOW TO MID 70S.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

HUDGINS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLCarter39 min
May 28, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLawrence35 min

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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.