Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Feb 15, 1989, 11:10 AM EST for Lincoln County, Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 1989, 11:10 AM EST (16:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 1989, 1:45 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, WV, Putnam 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 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 KCRW 151616 FFWCRW WVC043-151645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING . . . . . U P D A T E D . . . . . NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1110 AM EST WED FEB 15 1989 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PUTNAM COUNTY...AND HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING FOR THE MUD RIVER IN LINCOLN AND CABELL COUNTIES OF WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 145 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. RAIN OF ONE TO TWO INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST TWELVE HOURS...AND CONTINUES TO FALL. CURRENTLY...AN AREA OF HEAVY RAIN IS CROSSING THE WARNING AREAS AND THE PUBLIC REPORTS CONTINUED FLOODING. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO WATER CROSSING OR POOLED ON ROADS. IF WATER REACHES YOUR CAR...ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. YOU SHOULD NOT APPROACH RISING WATER ON FOOT...BUT MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MOST FLOOD FATALITIES RESULT FROM MOTORISTS AND PEDISTRIANS BEING SWEPT AWAY WHERE WATER CONCEALS WASH OUTS. END/PARKE
What 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, 5:34 AM EST, 5 hours 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV. 530 AM EST WED FEB 15 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY... SOUTHERN OHIO AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA... RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER THE TRI STATE REGION THIS MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN RANGING FROM LESS THAN ONE HALF OF INCH TO NEARLY 1 INCH IN THE PAST THREE HOURS. SEVERAL SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE UP AND OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS... NO SERIOUS FLOODING IS BEING REPORTED AT THIS TIME FROM ANY OF THE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPRATMENTS THROUGHOUT THE AREA. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE FORECAST FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHERN OHIO AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A RIVER OR CREEK...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF YOU OBSERVE RAPIDLY RISING WATERS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS...COLLINS... THIS RAINY WEATHER PATTERN IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE WELL INTO MID WEEK. PEOPLE LIVING IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT AND BE READY TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IN CASE FLOODING SHOULD BECOME A REALITY. DRIVERS IN ANY OF THE ABOVE AREAS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER FLOODED ROADS OR WHERE WATER IS FLOWING ACROSS THE ROADS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS IN YOUR AREA FOR FURTHER UP-DATES AS CONDITIONS WARRANT. COLLINS.
Special weather statement, Feb 15, 5:39 AM EST, 5 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV. 530 AM EST WED FEB 15 1989 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY... SOUTHERN OHIO AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA... RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER THE TRI STATE REGION THIS MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN RANGING FROM LESS THAN ONE HALF OF INCH TO NEARLY 1 INCH IN THE PAST THREE HOURS. SEVERAL SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE UP AND OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS... NO SERIOUS FLOODING IS BEING REPORTED AT THIS TIME FROM ANY OF THE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPRATMENTS THROUGHOUT THE AREA. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE FORECAST FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...SOUTHERN OHIO AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A RIVER OR CREEK...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF YOU OBSERVE RAPIDLY RISING WATERS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO/TV STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. COLLINS...
Nearby
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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.