Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1990, 4:05 PM EDT for Barbour County, Randolph County, West Virginia. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 1990, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1990, 5:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, WV, Randolph County, WV
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1194 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Aug 13, 1:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
WVZ006>008-131900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 140 PM EDT MON AUG 13 1990 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 135 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN RAPIDLY DEVELOPING DURING THE PAST HOUR. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER MINGO AND LOGAN COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHWEST COAL FIELDS AND IN CENTRAL NICHOLAS COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EASTWARD AT AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO RALEIGH..MCDOWELL..WYOMING..AND FAYETTE COUNTIES OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS.. AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CDB
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 2:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-132000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 230 PM EDT MON AUG 13 1990 THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING IN WEST VIRGINIA DURING THE MID AFTERNOON AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. BRIEF HEAVY SHOWERS WERE POSSIBLE FOR THE MID AND LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. AT 230 PM...THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE DETECTED BY WEATHER RADAR IN CALHOUN COUNTY AROUND GRANTSVILLE. THIS HEAVY SHOWER WILL STREAK ACROSS GILMER AND BRAXTON COUNTIES BETWEEN 230 AND 330 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WERE DEVELOPING AT 230 PM OVER NORTHERN PUTNAM COUNTY NEAR WINFIELD ...OVER SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY AND ROANE COUNTY. THESE STORMS MAY BRING BRIEF HEAVY SHOWERS TO KANAWHA COUNTY BETWEEN 3 AND 5 PM. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING IN THE COAL REGION OF WYOMING...BOONE AND WESTERN RALEIGH COUNTIES. THESE STORMS MAY AFFECT DOWNTOWN BECKLEY BETWEEN 3 AND 5 PM. AS THE AFTERNOON CONTINUES...MORE> THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY FORM OVER THE MOUNTAINOUS COUNTIES OF WEST VIRGINIA. END/BATTY
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 3:41 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
WVZ006>008-132100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 340 PM EDT MON AUG 13 1990 AT 335 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WYOMING COUNTY NEAR MULLENS.. MCDOWELL COUNTY NORTH OF WELCH..IN FAYETTE COUNTY EAST OF GAULEY BRIDGE AND ARROSS EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY WEST OF RAINELLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EASTWARD AT AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SUMMERS..GREENBRIER..MERCER AND MONROE COUNTIES OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS.. AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY OCCURE IN LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CDB
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 3:42 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
WVZ006>008-132100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 340 PM EDT MON AUG 13 1990 AT 335 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WYOMING COUNTY NEAR MULLENS.. MCDOWELL COUNTY NORTH OF WELCH..IN FAYETTE COUNTY EAST OF GAULEY BRIDGE AND ARROSS EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY WEST OF RAINELLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EASTWARD AT AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SUMMERS..GREENBRIER..MERCER AND MONROE COUNTIES OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS.. AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY OCCURE IN LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.