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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Charleston, WV

June 8, 1990Licking County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 4:18 PM EDT for Licking County, Ohio. It was in force for 42 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, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1990, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Licking County, OH

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, 4:30 PM EDT	Hail 2	Licking, OH

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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 754 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCMH 082019
SVRCMH
OHC089-082100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
418 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN CENTRAL OHIO
          ...LICKING
 
AT 415 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTH CENTRAL LICKING COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM
EXTENDED FROM NEAR UTICA TO NEWARK AND WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST
AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOESj
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
LVW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 6:08 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Fairfield, Pickaway	67 min
Jun 8, 5:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Union	68 min
Jun 8, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Muskingum	58 min
Jun 8, 5:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Delaware, Franklin	37 min
Jun 8, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Union	49 min
Jun 8, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Delaware	50 min
Jun 8, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Franklin	43 min
Jun 8, 7:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Union	32 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.