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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Charleston, WV

June 9, 1990Grant County, Tucker County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1990, 6:18 PM EDT for Grant County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1990, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1990, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Grant County, WV, Tucker 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 267 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KEKN 092218
TOREKN
WVC023-093-092315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV
618 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...GRANT COUNTY
 
IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...NORTHERN TUCKER COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED THAT A TORNADO WAS MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN TUCKER
COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30
TO 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO GRANT COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 15
MINUTES TO HALF HOUR.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
END/FERRELL
 C
NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 3:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	67 min
Jun 9, 6:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Braxton	4 hr
Jun 9, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun, Roane	50 min
Jun 9, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Braxton, Gilmer	66 min
Jun 9, 3:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer	4 hr
Jun 9, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie	58 min
Jun 9, 4:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Clay	4 hr
Jun 9, 5:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Webster	4 hr
Jun 9, 5:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Harrison, Lewis	116 min
Jun 9, 5:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Grant, Preston, Taylor	116 min
Jun 9, 5:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Marion	116 min
Jun 9, 5:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Mineral	116 min
Jun 9, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Grant, Mineral, Preston	116 min
Jun 9, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Harrison, Marion, Taylor	116 min
Jun 9, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lewis	116 min
Jun 9, 5:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Nicholas	4 hr

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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.