Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 121, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Dec 18, 1990, 4:18 PM EST for 6 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 1990, 4:18 PM EST (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 1990, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Doddridge County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 91 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 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, Dec 18, 10:44 AM EST, 5 hours 34 minutes before
WVZ03-KYZ006-OHZ09-181800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 1030 AM EST TUE DEC 18 1990 A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO... UNTIL 0800 PM FOR WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA...ALL DAY FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY... AT 1030 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED LIGHT RAIN OCCURRING OVER SOUTHERN OHIO...EASTERN KENTUCKY AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA... RAIN AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. MANY SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE AT OR NEAR BANK FULL. SOME PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS HAVE BEEN REPORTED. NUMEROUS SMALL ROADS ARE BLOCKED IN SOUTHERN OHIO...THEY INCLUDE STATE ROUTE 554 IN GALLIA COUNTY...ROUTE 143 AND ROUTE 681 IN MEIGS COUNTY...STATE ROUTE 73 IN SCIOTO COUNTY...AND STATE ROUTE 124 IN IDAHO IN PIKE COUNTY. RAIN HAS LET UP IN INTENSITY AND WILL PICK UP LATER THIS AFTERNOON. ANOTHER INCH OF RAIN IS EXPECTED. THIS ADDED TO THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND AND SWOLLEN CREEKS AND STREAMS CREATE THE POSSIBILITY FOR FLOODING. EXTRA CAUTION MUST BE EXERCISED WHILE DRIVING. DO NOT DRIVE OR WALK THROUGH AREAS COVERED BY WATER. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED. HATFIELD/COSTELLO
Special weather statement, Dec 18, 1:15 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
WVZ03-KYZ006-OHZ09-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 115 PM EST TUE DEC 18 1990 A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO... UNTIL 0800 PM FOR WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA...ALL DAY FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY... AT 100 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED LIGHT RAIN OCCURRING OVER SOUTHERN OHIO...EASTERN KENTUCKY AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA... RAIN AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED. MOST SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE AT OR ABOVE BANKFUL. NUMEROUS SECONDARY ROADS ARE BLOCKED ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA... ESPECIALLY IN SOUTHERN OHIO. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO USE EXTEME CAUTION WHILE DRIVING ACROSS THE AREA. HOWEVER..THERE WERE ISOLATED HEAVIER SHOWERS ACROSS SOUTHERN OHIO. THIS ADDED TO THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND AND SWOLLEN CREEKS WILL CONTINUE THE POSSIBILITY FOR FLOODING. HATFIELD/COSTELLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 7:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Marion, Monongalia | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 7:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 8:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 8:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler, Wetzel | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 9:28 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Preston | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 9:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Marion, Monongalia, Preston | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 9:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Marion, Monongalia | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Preston | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood | 4 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Wetzel | 4 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 4 hr |
| Dec 18, 4:18 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wetzel | 2 hr |
| Dec 18, 4:18 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Dec 18, 5:41 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Monongalia, Preston, Tucker | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 5:41 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Lewis, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 5:41 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Marion | 3 hr |
| Dec 18, 6:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wetzel | 65 min |
| Dec 18, 6:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Wirt, Wood | 65 min |
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.