Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 1990, 7:51 PM EDT for Cabell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1990, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1990, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cabell 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 969 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KHTS 302352 RRA
FFWHTS
WVC011-010045-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
751 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
...CABELL
AT 747PM AMATEUR RADIO STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED FLOODING IN DOWNTOWN
HUNTINGTON. SEVERAL STREETS AND SMALL CREEKS IN THE DOWNTOWN
AREA..INCLUDING 3RD AVENUE WERE FLOODING. THIS CONDITION WILL BE SHORT
LIVED BUT MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT AND NOT DRIVE THROUGH STANDING
WATER.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
END/DGWhat 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, Jun 30, 3:24 PM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
KYZ008-302025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 325 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 1990 AT 315 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERS BEGINING TO MOVE INTO PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. ONE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL MORGAN COUNTY...25 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. IF YOU SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. THROUGH 530 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WOLFE...LEE AND JACKSON COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN NEARLY STEADY. HUDGINS
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 4:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
KYZ008-302135- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 435 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 1990 AT 430 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS IN WESTERN MORGAN COUNTY...ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...OCCASIONAL LIGHTINING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. IF YOU SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WAIDLEY
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 5:39 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
KYZ008-302240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 540 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 530 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATEDOVER THE NORTHERN PART OF MORGAN COUNTY...25 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. IF YOU SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUDGINS
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 6:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
KYZ008-302340- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 640 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 630 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ALONG THE LEE...OWSLEY COUNTY LINE...25 MILES WEST OF JACKSON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING MODERATE RAIN AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND WAIT FOR THE STORM TO PASS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUDGINS
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 7:36 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
KYZ008-310035- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 735 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME EASTERN KENTUCKY... AT 730 PM EDT...MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUTO OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE REMAINING THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER PIKE COUNTY... WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF PIKEVILLE. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND WAIT FOR THE STORM TO PASS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUDGINS
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.