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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Charleston, WV

September 14, 1990Muskingum County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 1990, 6:31 PM EDT for Muskingum County, Ohio. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 14, 1990, 6:31 PM EDT (22:31 UTC)
Expired
Sep 14, 1990, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Muskingum County, OH

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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1990-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 148 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1990-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 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 KCMH 142238 COR
TORCMH
OHC119-142315-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
637 PM EDT FRI SEP 14 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
          ...MUSKINGUM

AT 625 PM EDT MUSKINGUM COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED AN UNCONFIRMED TORNADO
TOUCH DOWN AT ADAMSVILLE IN NORTHEAST MUSKINGUM COUNTY. THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
THROUGH THE COUNTY.


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.

WEBER
...CORRECTED FOR WORDING 1ST PARAGRAPH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 14, 4:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMadison, Union68 min
Sep 14, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDelaware, Franklin67 min
Sep 14, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette, Ross62 min
Sep 14, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFairfield, Licking42 min
Sep 14, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXHocking, Vinton60 min
Sep 14, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXAthens47 min

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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.