Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 5, 1989, 7:08 PM EDT for Raleigh County, West Virginia. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1989, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1989, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 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, 11.1 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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TTAA00 KBKW 052307
FFWBKW
WVC081-060015-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV
708 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BECKLEY WV HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
...RALEIGH
AT 700 PM EDT, BECKLEY WEATHER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE MODERATE TO
LIGHT RAIN COVERING THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF WEST VIRGINIA. MANY STREAMS
HAVE BEEN REPORTED OVER THEIR BANKS AND OTHERS NEAR BANKFULL. REPORTS
ALSO HAVE BEEN RECEIVED OF ROADWAYS COVERED WITH WATER. THE
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT HOUR MAY CAUSE STREAMS TO
RISE EVEN FURTHER.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, 3 hours 9 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, 1 hour 44 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, 1 hour 18 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
Special weather statement, May 5, 6:33 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
BULLETIN SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY, WV 630 PM EDT FRI MAY 5 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGNIA UNTIL MIDNIGHT... URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED FOR RALIEGH COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM THIS EVENING AND SUMMERS COUNTY UNTIL 815 PM. NUMEROUS CREEKS HAVE BEEN REPORTED OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS IN RALEIGH AND SUMMERS COUNTIES. ROCK AND MUD SLIDES HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED IN SUMMERS COUNTY. RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER ALL OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND ADDITIONAL RAIN MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING IN MANY AREAS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. 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, 6:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Summers | 116 min |
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.