Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1990, 5:17 PM EDT for Monroe County, West Virginia. It was in force for 73 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 1990, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 1990, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 73 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 695 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 KBKW 202120 SVRBKW WVC063-202230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 517 PM EDT MON AUG 20 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BECKLEY WV HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA ...MONROE COUNTY AT 515 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY INDICATED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MONROE COUNTY. THE FIRST WAS JUST SOUTH OF UNION AND THE SECOND WAS 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF UNION. THE STORMS APPEAR TO BE MERGING INTO 1 LARGE THUNDERSTORM. VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT IS INDICATED WITH THESE STORMS. THE TOWN OF UNION IS IN THE PjATH OF THIS STORM. PLATE
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 20, 2:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
WVZ006>008-202000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 237 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 1990 AT 233 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY NEAR MT HOPE AND OVER NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY NEAR FLAT TOP. 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
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 2:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
WVZ006>008-202000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 237 PM EDT MON AUG 20 1990 AT 233 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FORMING OVER SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY NEAR MT HOPE AND OVER NORTHERN MERCER COUNTY NEAR FLAT TOP. 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
Special weather statement, Aug 20, 4:57 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
WVZ007-202200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 455 PM EDT MON AUG 20 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER MONROE COUNTY... AT 450 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER MONROE COUNTY JUST EAST OF UNION. THIS STORM WAS DRIFTING VERY SLOWLY EAST. VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM AS IT MOVES THROUGH MONROE COUNTY BETWEEN NOW AND 600 PM. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WINDS TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATSHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/PLATE
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.