Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1990, 2:36 PM EDT for Dickenson County, Wise County, Virginia. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 1990, 2:36 PM EDT (18:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1990, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dickenson County, VA, Wise County, VA
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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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 KTRI 011836 SVRTRI VAC051-195-011915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TN 236 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BRISTOL HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ...DICKENSON COUNTY...NORTHERN WISE COUNTY AT 230 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN WISE COUNTY VIRGINIA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN DICKENSON COUNTY BY 245 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGEa HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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 1, 1:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
TNZ002-TNZ004-011830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TN 133 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 1990 AT 1:25 PM EDT/12:25 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 15 MILES WEST OF COOKEVILLE TO JELLICO. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FENTRESS COUNTY AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF ONEIDA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT 40 MPH. PERSONS IN FENTRESS AND CAMPBELL COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THESE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
Special weather statement, May 1, 1:41 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
TNZ002-TNZ004-011830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KNOXVILLE TN 133 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 1990 AT 1:25 PM EDT/12:25 PM CDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 15 MILES WEST OF COOKEVILLE TO JELLICO. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF FENTRESS COUNTY AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF ONEIDA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT 40 MPH. PERSONS IN FENTRESS AND CAMPBELL COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THESE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Russell | 25 min |
| May 1, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.