Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1990, 3:00 AM EDT for Mason County, West Virginia. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1990, 3:00 AM EDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1990, 3:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mason 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
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 1187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KHTS 090701
SVRHTS
WVC053-090730-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
300 AM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
...MASON
AT 0250 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN MASON COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS
MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. MASON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED TREES
DOWNED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS THUNDERSTORM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEA.DLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
END/YOUNGWhat 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 8, 11:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
KYZ008-090435- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1135 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 AT 1130 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. ONE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PART OF MORGAN COUNTY... 30 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. IF YO,U ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM ANY WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUDGINS
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 12:29 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
KYZ008-090535- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1235 AM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 AT 1230 AM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. SKIES REMAINED PARTLY CLOUTDY IN MOST AREAS WITH ONLY A FEW SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUDGINS
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.