Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 1989, 11:44 AM EDT for Randolph County, Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 1989, 11:44 AM EDT (15:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 1989, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Randolph 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 23, 10:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA 1030 AM EDT WED AUG 23 1989 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE WEST VIRGINIA PORTION OF THE HUNTINGTON/ASHLAND/IRONTON TRI STATE AREA... AT 1020 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS NORTHERN GALLIA COUNTY IN OHIO AND INTO MASON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN SHOWN MOVING ACROSS JACKSON...GALLIA...AND MEIGS COUNTIES IN OHIO DURING THE LAST TWO HOURS...MOVING INTO NORTHERN MASON AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA. CALLS INTO THE OHIO COUNTIES HAVE PRODUCED NO INFORMATION OTHER THAN BRIEF MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS AND NO FLOODING PROBLEMS AT THIS TIME. AS TEMPERATURES RISE DURING THE LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS OVER OUR TRI STATE AREA. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE STORMS. PLYBON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 9:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 4:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Webster | 3 hr |
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.