Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 6, 1989, 11:10 AM EST for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 1989, 11:10 AM EST (16:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 1989, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Upshur 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 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 KEKN 061620 FFWEKN WVC061-049-033-091-001-097-041-061900- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE - ELKINS, WV 11:10 AM EST MON MAR 6, 1989 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 2 PM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA...MONONGALIA...MARION..HARRISON...TAYLOR...BARBOUR... UPSHUR...LEWIS. AT 11 AM RADAR AND SURFACE REPORTS SHOW AN AREA OF MODERATE RAIN OVER OR MOVING INTO THE WARNED COUNTIES. STREAMS ARE STARTING OUT OF THEIR BANKS OR AT BANKFULL LEVELS. MODERATE RAINFALLS WILL CAUSE FAST RISES ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS BEEN REPORTED. IF WATER LEVELS BEGIN TO RISE...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND OR TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. IF ASKED TO EVACUATE BY EMERGENCY PERSONNEL...DO SO. DO NOT RETURN UNTIL WATER LEVELS BEGIN TO RECEED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER...IT MAY BE TOO SWIFT OR THE ROAD BED MAY BE WASHED AWAY. END/HILL-PURDY
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, Mar 6, 5:22 AM EST, 5 hours 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA 510 AM EST MON MAR 6 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST KENTUCKY TODAY... ...WINTER STORM WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO TODAY... ...FLOOD WATCH WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES RAIN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY SOUTHERN OHIO AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. A SLOW MOVING STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING MORE RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN INTO THE REGION THIS MORNING. CFEEKS AND STREAMS ARE REPORTED NEAR BANKFULL...BUT NO FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED. IF YOU LIVE IN AN AREA THAT FLOODS QUICKLY YOU SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR ANY ONSET OF HEAVY RAIN. SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS CAN FLOOD VERY QUICKLY DURING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. REPORTS INDICATE THAT FREEZING RAIN HAS CAUSED POWER LINES DOWN AND ICY ROADS FROM JACKSON OHIO TO JUST NORTH OF PIKETON OHIO. WEST BOUND TRAVELERS WILL ENCOUNTER FREEZING RAIN... SLEET AND SN5OW OVER WESTERN AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN OHIO. SHUFF
Special weather statement, Mar 6, 6:46 AM EST, 4 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 645 AM EST MON MAR 6 1989 ...FLOOD WATCH FOR THE GREENBRIER VALLEY AND SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING. THIS INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF FAYETTE..GREENBRIER..SUMMERS ..MONROE..MERCER AND RALEIGH. ...FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS MORNING..AND A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT FOR THE SOUTHWEST COAL FIELD..THIS INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF WYOMING..MCDOWELL..LOGAN AND MINGO. ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA TODAY... HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT CAUSED SOME SMALL STREAMS IN MINGO..LOGAN..WAYNE.. BOONE AND LINCOLN COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA TO RISE TO NEAR BANK FULL. ONLY LIGHT RAIN IS OCCURING ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTH WEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING. HOWEVER HEAVER RAIN ALONG WITH THE SATURATED GROUND COULD CAUSE ADDITIONAL RISES ON SMALL STREAMS THROUGH THIS MORNING. PERSONS LIVING NEAR SMALL STREAMS SHOULD LISTEN FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. URBAN FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. MOTORIST SHOULD NOT ATTEMT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTH FLOWING ACROSS RAODWAYS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. END/BRAMBLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 9:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Mar 6, 11:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Marion, Monongalia, Taylor | 3 hr |
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.