Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Oct 19, 1989, 6:44 AM EDT for Lewis County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 1989, 6:44 AM EDT (10:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 1989, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lewis 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 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 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, Oct 19, 4:51 AM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA 450 AM EDT THU OCT 19 1989 ...SNOW ADVISORY TODAY FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO FOR 1 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW... SNOW HAS BEEN FALLING IN THE LEXINGTON KENTUCKY AND CININATTI OHIO AREA THIS MORNING BUT ONLY RAIN OR DRIZZLE HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE HUNTINGTON...ASHLAND... IRONTON AREA SO FAR. RAIN AND SNOW MIXED AND EVEN BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY SNOW COULD OCCUR LATER THIS MORNING ACCUMULATING 1 TO 2 INCHES ON GRASSY AREAS...AND ROADWAYS COULD BECOME SLIPPERY FOR A SHORT TIME. SHOULD YOU ENCOUNTER THE SNOW THIS MORNING...SLOW DOWN AND DRIVE CAREFULLY...ITS BEEN AWHILE SINCE SLIPPERY CONDITIONS HAVE OCCURED AROUND THE TRI STATE REGION. SHUFF OCCUR SINCE PERIODS OF RAIN REMAIN IN THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT. THIS AREA OF RAIN WILL BE WATCHED VERY CLOSELY FOR ANY FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ANY ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS SHOULD THEY BE NECESSARY. ...CORRECTION CHANGE ISSUE TIME FROM ...AM...TO ...PM... PLYBON...
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 4:57 AM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA 450 AM EDT THU OCT 19 1989 ...SNOW ADVISORY TODAY FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO FOR 1 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW... SNOW HAS BEEN FALLING IN THE LEXINGTON KENTUCKY AND CININATTI OHIO AREA THIS MORNING BUT ONLY RAIN OR DRIZZLE HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE HUNTINGTON...ASHLAND... IRONTON AREA SO FAR. RAIN AND SNOW MIXED AND EVEN BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY SNOW COULD OCCUR LATER THIS MORNING ACCUMULATING 1 TO 2 INCHES ON GRASSY AREAS...AND ROADWAYS COULD BECOME SLIPPERY FOR A SHORT TIME. SHOULD YOU ENCOUNTER THE SNOW THIS MORNING...SLOW DOWN AND DRIVE CAREFULLY...ITS BEEN AWHILE SINCE SLIPPERY CONDITIONS HAVE OCCURED AROUND THE TRI STATE REGION. SHUFF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 10:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mingo | 118 min |
| Oct 18, 11:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 2 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.