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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV

May 3, 1990Ross County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1990, 5:00 PM EDT for Ross County, Ohio. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 1990, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 1990, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Ross 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1990 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCMH 032101
SVRCMH
OHC141-032130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
500 PM EDT THU MAY 3 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO
          ...ROSS
 
AT 455 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WEST OF
FRANKFORT IN WESTERN ROSS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH
AND WILL REACH CHILLICOTHE BY 515 PM.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVEaRE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
HOLMES

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 3, 1:01 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-032000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
1255 PM EDT THU MAY 03 1990

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAD PASSED THROUGH NORTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY
EARLIER TODAY HAVE MADE THEIR WAY TO EXTREME NORTHEAST KENTUCKY. AT
1255 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN IN SOUTHEAST LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT
ABOUT 50 MPH AND WILL PASS THROUGH CARTER COUNTY BETWEEN 100 PM AND 130 PM.

THIS STORM PRODUCED SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL EARLIER TODAY.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM AND YOU SEE IT APPROACHING...SEEK
SHELTER INDOORS. HAIL...STRONG WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY
RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR
UPDATES ON THE SITUATION.

HARRISON

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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.