Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 1990, 5:28 AM EDT for Meigs County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1990, 5:28 AM EDT (09:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1990, 7:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Meigs County, OH
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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 1687 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KHTS 220932
FFWHTS
OHC105-221130-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
528 AM EDT WED AUG 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH OHIO
...MEIGS
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.
END/JBCWhat 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, Aug 21, 11:56 PM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
KYZ008-220500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1155 PM EDT TUE AUG 21 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 1145 PM...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... CONTINUED ACROSS THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS OVER SOUTHERN PERRY AND WESTERN LETCHER COUNTY...15 MILES SOUTH OF HAZARD. THE STORMS WERE SLOWLY MOVING SOUTHEAST. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE HEAVY RAIN FROM THESE STORMS MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU LIVE IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA YOU SHOULD MONITOR WATER LEVELS CLOSELY AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WAIDLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 6:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Gallia | 2 hr |
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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.