Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 8:42 AM EDT for Preston County, Taylor County, West Virginia. It was in force for 93 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 8:42 AM EDT (12:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 10:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Preston County, WV, Taylor County, WV
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 9:00 AM EDT | Hail 1 | Preston, WV |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1053 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 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 KEKN 081242 SVREKN WVC077-091-081415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 842 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...PRESTON COUNTY...TAYLOR COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING ACROSS MONONGALIA AND MARION COUNTIES MOVING EAST TOWARD PRESTON AND TAYLOR COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM EXTENDS FROM AROUND FAIRMONT NORTH TO MORGANTOWN. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. IF FLASH FLOODING DEVELOPES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS ROADWAYS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOUL(D MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. GILKERSON NNNN
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 8, 7:04 AM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
WVZ006>008-081200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 700 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 650 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY TWO LINES OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WEST VIRGINIA. THE FIRST LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR CLAY IN CLAY COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO NEAR MADISON IN BOONE COUNTY AND THEN ON SOUTH TO NEAR IAEGER IN NORTHERN MCDOWELL COUNTY. THE SECOND LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM FROM ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF PARKERSBURG SOUTHWEST TO NEAR RIPLEY IN JACKSON COUNTY AND THEN ON SOUTHWEST THROUGH WILLIAMSON IN MINGO COUNTY TO NEAR WHITESBURG IN LETCHER COUNTY KENTUCKY. THIS SECOND LINE OF STORMS WAS THE STRONGEST. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST NORTH OF NITRO ALONG THE PUTNAM-KANAWHA COUNTY LINE. LARGE HAIL WAS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR PUTNAM COUNTY UNTIL 745 AM. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE IN NORTHEAST PUTNAM COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF RIPLEY...IN SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF MADISON... IN WESTERN LOGAN COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF LOGAN...AND IN SOUTHWESTERN PIKE COUNTY KENTUCKY NEAR WEEKSBURY. ALL OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMEDNT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/PLATE
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 7:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
WVZ005-009-081315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 714 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 705 AM EDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN OHIO FROM JUST WEST OF RAVENSWOOD WEST VIRGINIA NORTHWARD TO JUST WEST OF THE EXTREME NORTHERN TIER OF THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS LINE WAS EMBEDDED IN A VERY LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH EMBEDDED SHOWERS WHICH COVERED MUCH OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA..THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA AND THE EASTERN HALF OF OHIO. THIS LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR AND INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. PERSONS LIVING IN OR TRAVELING THROUGH NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA..SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS..PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN.. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND POSSIBLE HAIL IN AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF SEVERE WEATHER AND/OR FLOODING IS OBSERVED..RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SER]VICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCASTS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. END/FERRELL
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 7:53 AM EDT, 49 minutes before
WVZ002-005-081200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 750 AM EDT FRI MAY 08 1990 A LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR WHEELING IN THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE SOUTHWARD INTO WETZEL AND TYLER COUNTIES. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR... AND WILL MOVE INTO PORTIONS OF MONONGALIA..MARION AND DODDRIDGE COUNTIES WITHIN THE HOUR. PERSONS IN THE AREA OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ALERT TO HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BREIF GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. BDG
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 8:02 AM EDT, 40 minutes before
WVZ005-009-081400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 800 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 755 AM EDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM PITTSBURGH PA SOUTHWEST INTO EXTREME WESTERN MONONGALIA COUNTY OF WEST VIRGINIA ON SOUTHWEST INTO RITCHIE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. THIS LINE IS MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL BE APPROACHING THE CITIES OF MORGANTOWN...CLARKSBURG AND WESTON AND AREAS IN BETWEEN DURING THE NEXT HOUR TO HOUR AND A HALF. PERSONS LIVING IN OR TRAVELING THROUGH NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA..SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS..PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN.. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND POSSIBLE HAIL IN AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF SEVERE WEATHER AND/OR FLOODING IS OBSERVED..RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCASTS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. END/FERRELL/GILKERSON
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 8:03 AM EDT, 39 minutes before
WVZ005-009-081400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 800 AM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 755 AM EDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM PITTSBURGH PA SOUTHWEST INTO EXTREME WESTERN MONONGALIA COUNTY OF WEST VIRGINIA ON SOUTHWEST INTO RITCHIE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. THIS LINE IS MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL BE APPROACHING THE CITIES OF MORGANTOWN...CLARKSBURG AND WESTON AND AREAS IN BETWEEN DURING THE NEXT HOUR TO HOUR AND A HALF. PERSONS LIVING IN OR TRAVELING THROUGH NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA..SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS..PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN.. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND POSSIBLE HAIL IN AND NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF SEVERE WEATHER AND/OR FLOODING IS OBSERVED..RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCASTS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. END/FERRELL/GILKERSON
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 8:29 AM EDT, 13 minutes before
WVZ002-005-081200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 830 AM EDT FRI MAY 08 1990 IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS ISSUED BETWEEN 800 AND 830 AM THE WEATHER RADAR IS ALSO INDICATING STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE GILMER AND HARRISON COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA MOVING EASTWARD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRANG WINDS. END AAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 6:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 65 min |
| Jun 8, 7:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Roane | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 7:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 7:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 63 min |
| Jun 8, 8:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Marion, Monongalia | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 8:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Greenbrier | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 9:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Summers | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Ritchie | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 67 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in West 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.