Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1990, 4:14 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1990, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1990, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hampshire County, WV, Hardy 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 195 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 853 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 192014 RRA SVREKN WVC027-031-192115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 414 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST WEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHERN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY...EASTERN HARDY COUNTY RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE SOUTHERN HAMPSHIRE AND EASTERN HARDY COUNTY BORDERS OF WEST VIRGINIA NEAR AND NORTH OF WARDENSVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN FREDERICK AND NORTHERN SHENANDOAH COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. 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 DE"VELOPES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. DONT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS ROADWAYS.
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 19, 2:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-192000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 200 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 1990 A FEW SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED IN SOUTHERN OHIO AND WESTERN VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST 25 TO 30 MPH. AT 145PM A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY INTO WESTERN KANAWHA. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOTORISTS ARE CAUTIONED TO SLOW DOWN AND WATCH FOR WATER ON ROADS THAT MAY CAUSE HYDROPLANNING AND REDUCED VISIBILITY. PERSONS OUTDOORS ARE URGED TO MOVE INSIDE BEFORE THE STORM IS OVERHEAD. LIGHTNING HAS BEEN KNOWN TO STRIKE WELL OUT AHEAD OF THUNDERSTORMS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER AND FLASH FLOODING CALL YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-192000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY ...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 200 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 1990 A FEW SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED IN SOUTHERN OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST 25 TO 30 MPH. AT 145PM A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING THROUGH EASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY INTO WESTERN KANAWHA. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOTORISTS ARE CAUTIONED TO SLOW DOWN AND WATCH FOR WATER ON ROADS THAT MAY CAUSE HYDROPLANNING AND REDUCED VISIBILITY. PERSONS OUTDOORS ARE URGED TO MOVE INSIDE BEFORE THE STORM IS OVERHEAD. LIGHTNING HAS BEEN KNOWN TO S"TRIKE WELL OUT AHEAD OF THUNDERSTORMS. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER AND FLASH FLOODING CALL YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:15 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
WVZ005-009-192130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 315 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WESTERN MARYLAND AND THE POTOMAC HIGHLANDS OF WEST VIRGINIA... AT 305 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF GARRETT AND ALLEGANY COUNTIES OF WESTERN MARYLAND AND OVER MINERAL..HAMPSHIRE AND SOUTHERN HARDY COUNTIES OF WEST VIRGINIA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF KEYSER WEST VIRGINIA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. A WEAK COLD FRONT EXTENDS FROM NEW ENGLAND WESTWARD THROUGH NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHERN OHIO. THE ATMOSPHERE SOUTH OF THE FRONT ALREADY UNSTABLE DUE TO EARLIER SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WHICH MOVED THROUGH THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING..HAS BECOME MORE UNSTABLE DUE TO HOT TEMPERATURES AND THE INFLUX OF ADDITIONAL MOIST AIR FROM THE SOUTH. THIS UNSTABLE AIR WILL CAUSE THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS LIVING IN OR TRAVELING THROUGH WESTERN MARYLAND AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA..SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS.. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL IN AN NEAR THUNDERSTORMS. PERSONS LIVING ALONG SMALL STREAMS OR CREEKS OR IN AREAS SUBJECT TO RAPID FLOODING..SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON WATER LEVELS IN THEIR AREA. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING ISSUED..MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS HIGHWAYS OR PONDING WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTHS. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER AND/OR FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCASTS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. FERRELL
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 3:25 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
WVZ006>008-192030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 325 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WEST VIRGINIA... AT 320 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WESTERN NICHOLAS COUNTY WEST THROUGH NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY ON WEST TO WAYNE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING MINGO..LOGAN..RALEIGH AND WESTERN GREENBRIER COUNTIES BY 345 PM THIS AFTERNOON. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY ALSO OCCURE IN LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CDB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 1:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette | 61 min |
| Aug 19, 6:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Wood | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 7:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Ritchie, Wirt | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 7:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.