Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 1989, 5:04 PM EDT for Raleigh County, West Virginia. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1989, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1989, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Raleigh 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WVC081-052300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV
504 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
RALEIGH
AT 455 PM EDT THE RALEIGH COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER
REPORTED SMALL STREAM FLOODING IN THE VICINITY OF DANIELS IN
RALEIGH COUNTY.
RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN COVERING SOUTHERN
WEST VIRGINIA.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS ROADWAYS.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOUL:D BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
FUNDERBURKWhat 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, May 5, 3:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA 355 PM EDT FRI MAY 05 1989 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH OHIO AND KENTUCKY... AT 345 PM EDT...A 30 MILE WIDE LINE OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED THROUGH DAYTON AND CINCINNATI OHIO...SOUTHWEST THROUGH LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE HUNTINGTON TRI STATE AREA BY 7 PM. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION. YOUNG...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 5:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 3 hr |
| May 5, 6:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Summers | 116 min |
| May 5, 7:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 67 min |
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.