Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1990, 5:45 PM EDT for Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr. 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
- Jul 20, 1990, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1990, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monongalia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 5:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Monongalia, 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 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 202139 SVREKN WVC061-202345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 539 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...MONONGALIA COUNTY WEATHER RADAR INDICATES A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN MONONGALIA COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST. HEAVY RAINS WITH THESE STORMS COULD CAUSE FLOODING TO STREE AND 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. GILKERSON/VENITSANOS 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, Jul 20, 2:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
WVZ006>008-202000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 233 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 AT 228 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR BECKLEY IN RALEIGH COUNTY NORTH INTO NICHOLAS COUNTY AND EAST THROUGH GREENBRIER COUNTY..ON INTO VIRGINIA NEAR STUNTON..SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO SEEN IN WYOMING COUNTY IN SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE SLOWLY THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA THIS AFTERNOON. THE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CDB
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 3:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
WVZ001-002-003-004-005-009-202200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV 345 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DOTTED CENTRAL AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA DURING THE HEAT OF THE LATE AFTERNOON. IN THE MUGGY AIR...ISOLATED DOWNPOURS COULD BRIEFLY COOL DOWN SOME RESIDENTS. AT 3:30 PM...THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE LOCATED OVER THE LOWER KANAWHA VALLEY IN MASON COUNTY AND INTO JACKSON COUNTY. THESE STORMS COULD AFFECT SOUTHERN WOOD...WIRT AND NORTHERN ROANE COUNTIES BETWEEN 4 AND 5 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE DODDRIDGE/LEWIS COUNTY LINE WEST OF WESTON AND NEAR GRAFTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. NO DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OR LARGE HAIL WAS INDICATED WITH THESE PARTICULAR STORMS AT 3:30 PM. A MORE EXTENSIVE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM NEAR WHEELING WESTWARD TO CAMBRIDGE...ZANESVILLE...AND COLUMBUS. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AND BRING MORE DOWNPOURS INTO THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA EARLY THIS EVENING. SO THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE HAS THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SOME WATER PROBLEMS IN WEST VIRGINIA EARLY THIS EVENING. /MONITOR STATEMETNS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PITTSBURGH/ A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINED POSTED FOR THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE PLUS THE COUNTIES OF WETZEL...TYLER...MONONGALIA...AND MARION UNTIL 8 PM. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO IN EFECT FOR THE NXORTHERN PANHANDLE COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT. END/BATTY
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:11 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
WVC005-009-MDC008-009-202200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 5:10 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR MONONGALIA...WETZEL..TYLER AND MARION COUNTIES OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 5:05 PM EDT INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN OHIO EAST ACROSS MARSHALL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA NORTH OF MONONGALIA COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST WHILE THE ENTIRE LINE IS DROPPING SLOWLY SOUTH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO MONONGALIA AND WETZEL COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED EXTENDING FROM BARBOUR COUNTY NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN PRESTON COUNTY. SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVED ACROSS SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. PERSONS LIVING ALONG..OR WITH RECREATIONAL INTERESTS ALONG SMALL STREAMS OR CREEKS IN THE AREA OF THESE STORMS SHOULD WATCH WATER LEVELS CLOSELY. IF WATER LEVELS BEGIN RISING QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. HEAVY THUNDERSTORM RAINS CAN CAUSE RAPID PONDING OF WATER AND FLOODING TO POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. KEEP A WATCH ON THE SKY AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. GILKERSON NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:45 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
WVZ001-002-003-004-005-009-210000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV 545 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 AT 540 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG THE WEST VIRGINIA... PENNSYLVANIA BORDER FROM JUST NORTH OF MORGANTOWN WEST THROUGH NORTHERN WETZEL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA AND THEN SOUTHWEST INTO WASHINGTON AND HOCKING COUNTIES IN OHIO. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WITHIN THIS LINE MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THE COMMINITIES OF MORGANTOWN...NEW MARTINSVILLE...SISTERSVILLE... ST MARYS AND PARKERSBURG WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. END/PCZ
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.