Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 18, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 1989, 6:19 PM EDT for Summers County, West Virginia. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1989, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1989, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Summers 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, 10.3 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.
- 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.
000
TTAA00 KBKW 052219
FFWBKW
WVC089-060015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV
619 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
SUMMERS
AT 615 PM EDT THE SUMMERS COUNTY EMERGENCY OPERATIONS REPORTED
SMALL STREAMS OVER FLOWING THEIR BANKS IN THE COUNTY.
NUMEROUS ROCK AND MUD SLIDES WERE ALSO REPORTED.
RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW RAIN COVERING SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS ROADWAYS.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOOD WATERS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...
ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLwOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.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, May 5, 3:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 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...
Special weather statement, May 5, 5:24 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA 525 PM EDT FRI MAY 05 1989 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH OHIO AND KENTUCKY... A 30 MILE WIDE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF SPRINGFIELD OHIO TO FORT KNOX IN KENTUCKY AT 520 PM EDT. THE AREA WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE HUNTINGTON TRI STATE AREA BY 7 PM. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION COUNCERNING THESE THUNDERSTORMS. YOUNG...
Special weather statement, May 5, 5:50 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
BULLETIN SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY, WV 550 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN WEST VIRGNIA UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... THIS INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF BOONE...FAYETTE...GREENBRIER...LOGAN... MCDOWELL...MERCER...MINGO...MONROE...NICHOLAS...POCAHONTAS...RALEIGH... SUMMERS...WEBSTER...AND WYOMING COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR RALIEGH COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING. WATER WAS REPORTED FLOWING OUT OF ITS BANKS ALONG THE CREEK AT DANIELS AND BASEMENT FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE BECKLEY AREA. STREAMS ACROSS SOUTHERN ARE ALREADY HIGH FROM PREVIOUS RAIN AND FROM RAIN LAST NIGHT AND TODAY. ADDITIONAL RAIN MAY PRODUCE SMALL STREAM FLOODING IN MANY AREAS. RAINFALL OVER SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA HAS BEEN GENERALLY FROM THREE-QUARTERS/.75/ TO ONE AND ONE-ONE QUARTER INCHES/1.25/ IN THE PAST 6 HOURS. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PARTICULARLY CAUTIOUS AND NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ROADWAYS COVERED WITH FAST MOVING WATERS OR WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH. PERSONS NEAR AREAS THAT ARE PRONE TO FLOODING SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR FAST_ RISING WATERS AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. END/CGF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 5:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 116 min |
| May 5, 5:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 3 hr |
| 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.