Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 1990, 4:57 PM EDT for Cabell County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1990, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1990, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabell County, WV, Wayne 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 KHTS 222055
FFWHTS
WVC011-099-222200-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
457 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
...CABELL...WAYNE
OVER AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT THE TRI STATE AIRPORT DURING THE
LAST HALF HOUR.
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.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT 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 UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
HATFIELDWhat 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, Jul 22, 2:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
KYZ008-221915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 215 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 2 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIDDLESBORO...NEAR THE LAUREL...KNOX AND CLAY COUNTY LINES. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN EASTERN PIKE COUNTY... 10 MILES EAST OF PIKEVILLE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE REGION. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. ALSO PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS POSSIBLE AS WELL AS FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. OGREN
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 3:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
KYZ008-222045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 330 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 330 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE LONDON AREA...OR 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF MIDDLESBORO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO CLAY COUNTY NEAR MANCHESTER BY 400 PM EDT. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE MOUNTAIN REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD CAUSE SOME LOCAL FLOODING. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..9.DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IF A STORM APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD SEEK INDOOR SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. OGREN
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 4:45 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
KYZ008-222150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 445 PM EDT SUN JUL 22 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 440 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEST OF THE JACKSON AREA AND ACROSS LESLIE...HARLAN...AND BELL COUNTIES FROM NEAR HAZARD TO MIDDLESBORO. THE STROMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD CAUSE SOME LOCAL FLOODING. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. IF A STORM APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD SEEK INDOOR SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LvATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WAIDLEY
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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.