Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1990, 6:46 PM EDT for Carter County, Lewis County, Kentucky. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 1990, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1990, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Carter County, KY, Lewis 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1069 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 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 062247
SVRHTS
KYC043-135-062330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
646 PM EDT WED JUN 6 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN EAST KENTUCKY
...CARTER...LEWIS
AT 1843 EDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE BORDER OF
LEWIS AND CARTER COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT
ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. RE;MAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.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 6, 5:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
KYZ008-062205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 505 PM EDT WED JUN 6 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... AT 5 PM EDT...NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED OVER SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORM AND TORNADO DEVELOPMENT THIS EVENING. YOUU SHOULD WATCH FOR ANY THREATENING WEATHER THAT MAY DEVELOP AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUDGINS
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 6:08 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
KYZ008-062210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 610 PM EDT WED JUN 6 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... AT 6 PM EDT...RAINSHOWERS WERE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST MORGAN COUNTY...25 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. THESE SHOWERS WERE LIGHT AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS COVERED A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY BY 8 PM THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED TORNADOES AS THEY PASSED ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. IF YOU SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING...TAKE IMMEDIATE SHELTER IN THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A REINFORCED BUILDING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THESE STORMS. BH
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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.