Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 21, 1989, 9:15 AM EDT for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 21, 1989, 9:15 AM EDT (13:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 21, 1989, 10:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pocahontas 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Aug 21, 7:06 AM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE-ELKINS, WV 705 AM EDT MON AUG 21 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS MOVING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA... WEATHER RADAR AT 655 AM EDT INDICATED A SMALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS MOVING ACROSS DODDRIDGE COUNTY AND INTO HARRISON COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS ARE PUSHING EAST NORTH EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. MOTORIST SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION AND WATCH FOR PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS ON THE HIGHWAYS. REDUCED VISIBILITIES WILL OCCUR IN THE HEAVY RAINS. OVER AN INCH AND A HALF (1.66) OF RAIN HAS FELL ACROSS WESTERN TUCKER COUNTY DURING THE LAST 6 HOURS. MORE HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THIS AREA BEFORE NOON. THIS MAY CAUSE SOME SHARP RISES ON THE SMALLER STREAMS IN THIS AREA. END/PMG
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 8:46 AM EDT, 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE-ELKINS, WV 840 AM EDT MON AUG 21 1989 ...HEAVY RAINS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA... RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS SOUTHERN RANDOLPH AND NORTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTIES OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. MONTERVILLE IN SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY REPORTED 2.16 INCHES IN THE LAST 3 HOURS. AT SNOWSHOWE 1.58 INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED AND CHEAT BRIDGE 1.55. MINGO ALSO IN SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY RECEIVED 2.5 INCHES. SMALL STREAMS ARE REPORTED RUNNING HIGH. NO FLOODING PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN INDICATED...HOWEVER WATER WILL COLLECT IN LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME SMALL STREAMS MAY REACH BANKFULL. RADAR SHOWS THAT SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE SLOWLY MOVING OUT OF THESE AREAS. MORE RAIN COULD MOVE BACK OVER SOUTHERN RANDOLPH AND NORTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY THIS MORNING...THIS COULD PUSH SMALLER STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS. KEEP A WrATCH ON STREAM LEVELS AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF WATER LEVELS START RISING RAPIDLY. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. END/PMG
Special weather statement, Aug 21, 8:58 AM EDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE-ELKINS, WV 855 AM EDT MON AUG 21 1989 ...HEAVY RAINS ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA... RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED ACROSS SOUTHERN RANDOLPH AND NORTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTIES OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. MONTERVILLE IN SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY REPORTED 2.16 INCHES IN THE LAST 3 HOURS. SNOWSHOE REPORTS 1.58 INCHES AND CHEAT BRIDGE 1.55. MINGO...ALSO IN SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY...RECEIVED 2.5 INCHES. SMALL STREAMS ARE REPORTED RUNNING HIGH. NO FLOODING PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN INDICATED...HOWEVER WATER WILL COLLECT IN LOW LYING AREAS AND SOME SMALL STREAMS MAY REACH BANKFULL. RADAR SHOWS THAT SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE SLOWLY MOVING OUT OF THESE AREAS. MORE RAIN COULD MOVE BACK OVER SOUTHERN RANDOLPH AND NORTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY THIS MORNING...THIS COULD PUSH SMALLER STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS. KEEP A WATCH ON STREAM LEVELS AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF WATER LEVELS START RISING RAPIDLY. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. END/PMG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 10:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Nicholas, Webster | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 4:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph, Tucker | 4 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.