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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Jackson, KY

December 30, 1990Gallia County, Ohio; Cabell County, Mason County, West Virginia

NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 30, 1990, 7:03 PM EST for Gallia County, Ohio; Cabell County, Mason County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 30, 1990, 7:03 PM EST (00:03 UTC)
Expired
Dec 30, 1990, 11:00 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gallia County, OH, Cabell County, WV, Mason 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 43 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1990-12-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1990-12-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -176 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-304 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Dec 30, 1:05 PM EST, 5 hours 58 minutes before
KYZ008-301930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
100 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990

...A FLOOD WATCH IS EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY FOR THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

AT 100 PM...A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WAS APPROACHING THE WESTERN COUNTIES
OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. MANY AREAS IN KENTUCKY RECEIVED MORE THAN AN
INCH OF RAIN FROM THIS SYSTEM AND IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY WHERE THE
GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED AND CREEKS AND RIVERS ARE SWOLLEN FLOODING
WILL POSSIBLE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREA...YOU SHOULD MONITOR
WATER LEVELS CLOSLY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF
RISING WATER IS OBSERVED OR IF A WARNI0NG IS ISSUED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
ADDINGTON
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 2:14 PM EST, 4 hours 49 minutes before
KYZ008-302030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
210 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990

...A FLOOD WATCH IS EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY FOR THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

AT 200 PM...AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED INTO THE
NORTHWESTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE
RAIN WAS FROM JACKSON COUNTY...25 MILES WEST OF JACKSON THROUGH LEE
AND WOLFE TO MORGAN COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. FLOODING
IS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE COALFIELDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS THIS
RAIN SPREADS OVER THE REGION.

IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREA...YOU SHOULD MONITOR
WATER LEVELS CLOSLY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND eIF
RISING WATER IS OBSERVED OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 30, 7:03 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLBoyd, Greenup4 hr
Dec 30, 7:03 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLJohnson, Lawrence, Martin4 hr
Dec 30, 10:42 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLLawrence4 hr
Dec 30, 10:42 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLAdams, Pike, Scioto4 hr
Dec 30, 10:42 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLGallia, Meigs4 hr
Dec 30, 7:03 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningJKLWayne4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1990Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990

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.