Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this flash flood warning at Oct 23, 1990, 6:58 AM EDT for Spotsylvania County, Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 23, 1990, 6:58 AM EDT (10:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 1990, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spotsylvania County, VA
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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 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 23, 3:31 AM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
VAZ010-006-007-012-013-014-010-018-231000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RICHMOND VA 330 AM EDT TUE OCT 23 1990 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BATH...HIGHLAND...ALLEGHANY... ROCKBRIDGE...NELSON...AND ALBEMARLE COUNTIES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CONTINUED THE FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF WESTERN VIRGINIA...INCLUDING BATH...HIGHLAND...ALLEGHANY... ROCKBRIDGE...NELSON...AND ALBEMARLE COUNTIES UNTIL 6 AM EDT TUESDAY MORNING. A COLD FRONT JUST WEST OF THE APPALACHIAN DIVIDE HAS SPREAD RAIN OVER WESTERN AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA. LOW PRESSURE IS CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND WILL MOVE NORTH NORTHEAST...ACROSS WESTERN VIRGINIA OVERNIGHT AND EARLY TUESDAY. THE LOW COMBINED WITH A MOIST SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW WILL ENHANCE THE RAINFALL TONIGHT AS IT MOVES BY. SOME LOCATIONS WILL HAVE ALREADY RECIEVED 2 INCHES OF RAIN OR MORE AND AN ADDITIONAL 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE. DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS LAST WEEKEND AND THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED... THIS RAINFALL COULD CAUSE SOME RIVER AND STREAM LEVELS TO APPROACH AND POSSIBLY EXCEED BANKFUL. AT 315 AM RADAR SHOWS A LINE OF MODERATE SHOWERS WITH SCATTERED HEAVIER SHOWERS EXTENDING ALONG A LINE FROM CUMBERLAND COUNTY VIRGINIA DOWN TO NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOODING. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A CREEK OR STREAM...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS ANY FLOODED ROADWAYS. STAY TUNED TO COMMERCIAL TELEVISION/RADIO OR LOCAL NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS. REPORT ANY FLOODING TO YOUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO BE RELAYED TO THE NEAREST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. LIPSON
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.