Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Morristown, TN
NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Apr 26, 1989, 8:51 PM EDT for Wise County, Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1989, 8:51 PM EDT (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1989, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Morristown, TN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wise County, VA
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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 354 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Morristown, TN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 59 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in 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.