Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 133, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Dec 18, 1990, 6:55 PM EST for Jackson County, Wirt County, Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 1990, 6:55 PM EST (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 18, 1990, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 182357 FFWCRW WVC017-073-085-095-103-105-107-035-190100- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 655 PM EST TUE DEC 18 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...DODDRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...PLEASANTS COUNTY...RITCHIE COUNTY...TYLER COUNTY...WETZEL COUNTY ...WIRT COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...JACKSON COUNTY THIS WARNING IS AN EXTENSION OF WARNINGS ALREADY IN EFFECT. STEADY RAINFALL CONTINUES OVER MUCH OF WESTERN AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA CAUSING MANY STEAMS TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS. THE FLOODING HAS CAUSED SEVERAL ROADS TO BE CLOSED INCLUDING NORTH 18 IN DODDRIDGE COUNTY. MIDDLE ISLAND CREEK ALSO CONTINUES TO OVERFLOW ITS BANKS. THE RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR AN HOUR OR SO LONGER BEFORE TAPPERING OFF CAUSING THE THREAT OF FLOODING TO CONTINUE. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY CAREFUL SINCE WATER IS OVER THE ROAD AT MANY LOCATIONS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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, 5 hours 40 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 | 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 |
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.