Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1990, 6:55 PM EDT for Preston County, Taylor County, West Virginia. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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 29, 1990, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1990, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 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 29, 7:23 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Preston, WV | |
| Jun 29, 7:28 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Taylor, 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1266 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 292255 SVREKN WVC077-091-300000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 655 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...PRESTON COUNTY...NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS FAIRMONT OF MARION COUNTY TOWARD NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY AND CENTRAL PRESTON COUNTY OF WEST VIRGINIA. NUMEROUS TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWNED IN MARION COUNTY AND A PERSON AS BEEN STRUCK WITH LIGHTNING. THIS STORM IS ALSO PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD CAUSE RAPID FLOODING TO LOW-LYING POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD 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. 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 TH-E 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. 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 29, 2:51 PM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
WVZ005-009-291930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 250 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN HARRISON COUNTY OF WEST VIRGINIA... WEATHER RADAR AT 245 PM EDT SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN HARRISON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA MOVING EAST TOWARD BARBOUR COUNTY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. THE HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. KEEP A WATCH ON THE SKY AND IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. DON'T BE CAUGHT OUT IN THE OPEN IN A THUNDERSTORM. GILKERSON
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 3:18 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
KYZ006-OHZ009-WVZ003-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 320PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ...SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE TRI-STATE... AT 310PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE TRI-STATE AREA. THE STORMS WERE OVER THE OHIO COUNTIES OF PIKE AND LAWRENCE..THE KENTUCKY COUNTIES OF CARTER AND ELLIOT AND THE WEST VIRGINIA COUNTIES OF WAYNE..CABELL AND MASON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EASTSOUTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS..GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE TRI-STATE DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR STORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE TRI-STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AND FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED. END/DG
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
WVZ005-009-010-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 405 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... WEATHER RADAR AT 400 PM EDT SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN PRESTON...TUCKER...BARBOUR AND NORTHERN UPSHUR COUNTIES OF WEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST INTO GRANT AND NORTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. THE HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. KEEP A WATCH ON THE SKY AND IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO SAF!E SHELTER. DON'T BE CAUGHT OUT IN THE OPEN IN A THUNDERSTORM. GILKERSON
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
WVZ005-009-010-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 405 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... WEATHER RADAR AT 400 PM EDT SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN PRESTON...TUCKER...BARBOUR AND NORTHERN UPSHUR COUNTIES OF WEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST INTO GRANT AND NORTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. THE HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. KEEP A WATCH ON THE SKY AND IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO S*AFE SHELTER. DON'T BE CAUGHT OUT IN THE OPEN IN A THUNDERSTORM. GILKERSON
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 6:24 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-VA015-016-300100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT WEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 623 PM EDT FRI JUN 29 1990 WEATEHER RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOW A VIGOROUS THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA COUNTY OF WETZEL. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A LARGE AMOUNT OF CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING...HAIL ...GUSTY WINDS...AND SUDDEN...BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA COUNTY OF MARION...AND SHOULD REACH IN OR NEAR THE TOWN OF FAIRMONT WV ABOUT 730 PM TO 800 PM EDT THIS EVENING. AREAS WITHIN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THE STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS. LISTEN FOR FURTHER INFORMATION...OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM. END/PARKE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Marion, Monongalia | 52 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.