Alert archive / Ohio / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1990, 4:55 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Ohio. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1990, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1990, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lawrence 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
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHTS 282056 RRA SVRHTS OHC087-282130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 455 PM EDT MON MAY 28 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSU
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, 1 hour 21 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
Special weather statement, May 28, 4:25 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
KYZ008-282200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 425 PM EDT MON MAY 28 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY TIL 10 PM... AT 420 PM A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF HAZARD...15 MILES NORTH OF MIDDLESBORO AND ALSO ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. 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 POSSIBLY HAIL. IF YOU SEE OR HEAR A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING YOUR LOCATION...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PA)SSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ADDINGTON
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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.