Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 1989, 2:11 AM EST for Mason County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1989, 2:11 AM EST (07:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1989, 5:15 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mason 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
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 81 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 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 KHTS 160710
FFWHTS
WVC053-161015-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
211 AM EST THU FEB 16 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
...MASON
AT 205 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF MODERATE TO
HEAVY RAIN OVER MASON COUNTY MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEASTWARD. THE GROUND
IS WATER SOAKED AND THIS ADDED RAINFALL WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE THE FLOOD
POTENTIAL. THE MASON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS THAT THE ROADWAYS ARE
STILL IN GOOD CONDITION...HOWEVER...THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL CAN
QUICKLY CHANGE THIS SITUATION.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S
IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR
CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD
AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
BUSERWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Feb 15, 9:08 PM EST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 907 PM EST WED FEB 15 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY FOR TONIGHT... AT 845 PM...SEVERAL SMALL STREAMS IN MORGAN COUNTY WERE OUT OF THERE BANKS. THE STREAMS WERE FLOODING SOME LOW LYING AREAS. ALSO...KY 7 NEAR WRIGLEY...KENTUCKY HAD STANDING WATER ON THE ROAD. MOST OF THE CREEKS AND STREAMS IN MORGAN COUNTY WERE SLOWLY RECEDING. LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL OVER MOST OF NORTHERN HALF OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY AT 845 PM. THE RAIN WAS FALLING NORTH OF A LINE FROM LONDON TO PIKEVILLE. THE LIGHT RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE IN MUCH OF KENTUCKY THROUGH 1100 PM. SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY RESIDENTS...PARTICULARLY THOSE LIVING NEAR STREAMS OR AREA THAT ARE PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE ALERT AND PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR IF A WARNING IS IS ISSUED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECONIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING AND FLASH FLOODS. IN THE SALYERSVILLE AREA...THE LICKING RIVER WAS AT 17.7 FEET LATE THIS AFTERNOON. FLOOD STAGE IS 19 FEET. IT WILL CREST AT 21 FEET THURSDAY AFTERNOON. YOU SHOULD TUNE FREQUENTLY TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 11:01 PM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 1100 PM EST WED FEB 15 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... THE INTENSITY OF RAINFALL IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY CONTINUED TO BE LIGHT LATE THIS EVENING. THE LIGHT RAIN IS NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING IN THE COALFIELDS TONIGHT. THE LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL THROUGHOUT SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY AT 1040 PM AND IT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 100 AM THURSDAY MORNING. SOME SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN MORGAN COUNTY OF THE COALFIELDS. ALSO...KY HIGHWAY 7 NEAR WRIGLEY... KENTUCKY HAD STANDING WATER ON THE ROAD. MOST OF THE CREEKS AND STREAMS WERE SLOWLY RECEDING. PEOPLE LIVING IN LOW-LYING AREAS OR IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECONIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. MOTORIST SaHOULD USE CAUTION TONIGHT ON AREA ROADS. WATCH FOR STANDING WATER ON THE HIGHWAYS AND YOU SHOULD NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS. JOHNSON
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 1:34 AM EST, 37 minutes before
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 130 AM EST THU FEB 16 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... GENERALLY LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED OVER MOST OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY EARLY THIS MORNING AT 115 AM. THE RAIN HAD BEEN FALLING AROUND THE REGION THROUGH THE NIGHTTIME HOURS BUT AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN LESS THAN A QUARTER OF AN INCH FOR SINCE SUNSET. ALTHOUGH THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED TONIGHT..A FEW CREEKS AND STREAMS MAY GRADUALLY OVERFLOW AND FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS. NO LARGE AMOUNT OF WATER IS EXPECTED TO RAPIDLY FLOOD THE AREA OVERNIGHT. LIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 4 AM AROUND SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. WITH MOST OF THE AREAS WATERWAYS VERY FULL THIS MORNING AND RAIN CONTINUING..IT WOULD BE ADVANTAGOUS TO REMAIN ALERT FOR MINOR FLOODING. CONTINUE TO WATCH FOR WATER PONDING ON ROADS..POORLY DRAINING DITCHES.. LOW LANDS WHERE FLOODING IS NORMAL IN THIS TYPE OF SITUATION AND IN CITY STREETS WERE EXCESSIVE WATER HAS CREATED PROBLEMS WITH DRAINAGE SYSTEMS. ULLOM
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989
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.