Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Sep 22, 1989, 10:30 AM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 22, 1989, 10:30 AM EDT (14:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 1989, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Wyoming 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 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 221430
FFWBKW
WVC047-055-063-081-089-109-222030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV
1030 AM EDT FRI SEP 22 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
MCDOWELL...MERCER...MONROE...RALEIGH...SUMMERS...WYOMING
AT 1020 STEADY MODERATE RAIN WAS FALLING ACROSS THE WARNING
AREA AND SMALL STREAMS WERE AT BANKFUL. LARGER STREAMS AND
RIVERS...THOUGH STILL BELOW BANKFUL...WERE RISING RAPIDLY.
THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO FALL STEADILY DURING THE REST OF THE
DAY.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.
MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS ROADWAYS.
VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED IMMEDIATELY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.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, Sep 22, 7:56 AM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 730 AM EDT FRI SEP 22 1989 GUSTY WINDS FOR THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS AS HUGO ROLLS THROUGH. THE REMAINS OF HUGO WILL CAUSE WIND GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...EAST OF THE CLINCH VALLEY...THIS MORNING. THESE SPEEDS CAN CAUSE TREE LIMBS TO SNAP AND SOME VULNERABLE ROOFING TO BLOW-OFF. HOWEVER...NO MAJOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS SHOULD RESULT THOUGH. WINDS WILL DECREASE THIS AFTERNOON IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. IN SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...AROUND BLUEFIELD AND BECKLEY... WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED BETWEEN 9 AM AND 2 PM. MOTORISTS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON THE WEST VIRGINIA TURNPIK&E AND INTERSTATE 64 MAY ENCOUNTER SUDDEN JERKS FROM THESE WINDS GUSTS. END/BATTY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 10:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Monroe, Summers | 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.