Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1990

Tornado Warning 8, NWS Charleston, WV

July 22, 1990Pleasants County, Tyler County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Jul 22, 1990, 6:31 PM EDT for Pleasants County, Tyler County, West Virginia. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports 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 22, 1990, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 1990, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pleasants County, WV, Tyler 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 22, 6:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Pleasants, WV
Jul 22, 6:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Tyler, 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 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 KCRW 222236
TORCRW
WVC073-095-222300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
631 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...NORTHERN PLEASANTS COUNTY...TYLER COUNTY
 
AT 615 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE WASHINGTON CONTY SHERIFF ONE
MILE NORTH OF MARIETTA OHIO. THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST
AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS PATH WOULD BRING THE TORNADO
ACROSS THE OHIO RIVER INTO NORTHERN PLEASANTS COUNTY OR TYLER COUNTY
IN THE NEXT 15 TO 20 MINUTES.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 6:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Kanawha, Putnam	2 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in West Virginia, 1990 Every tornado warning in 1990 Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.