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Flash Flood Warning 124, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Dec 18, 1990, 5:41 PM EST for Monongalia County, Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 1990, 5:41 PM EST (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 1990, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monongalia County, WV, Preston County, WV, Tucker 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 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 KEKN 182241 FFWEKN WVC033-041-049-061-077-093-097-190200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING FOR STREAMS AND CREEKS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 541 PM EST TUE DEC 18 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR STREAMS AND CREEKS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...HARRISON COUNTY...LEWIS COUNTY...MARION COUNTY...MONONGALIA COUN ...PRESTON COUNTY...TUCKER COUNTY...UPSHUR COUNTY STREAMS AND CREEKS ACROSS THE WARNED AREA ARE RUNNING BANKFULL WITH SEVERAL STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS. WEATHER RADAR INDICATES AN AREA OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. THIS ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL CAUSE FURTHER PROBLEMS WITH THE ALREADY SWOLLEN STREAMS. MINOR FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS...MONONGALIA... PRESTON...LEWIS...HARRISON AND MARION COUNTIES TODAY. RAINFALL HAS AVERAGED FROM 1 TO 2.5 INCHES ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. THE HEAVIER RAINS SHOULD LAST AROUND A HALF AN HOUR THEN FOLLOWED BY MORE LIGHT RAIN. BE ALERT ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT WHEN FLOOD WATERS ARE HARDER TO RECOGNIZE. TO REPORT FLOODING ASK YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. 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. GILKERSON NNNN
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, 1:15 PM EST, 4 hours 26 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 | Doddridge, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler, Wirt, Wood | 2 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 | 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.