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Flash Flood Warning 151, NWS Charleston, WV

December 30, 1990Franklin County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Dec 30, 1990, 1:45 PM EST for Franklin County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 30, 1990, 1:45 PM EST (18:45 UTC)
Expired
Dec 30, 1990, 5:45 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Franklin 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

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1990-12-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1990-12-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 167 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
337 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCMH 301846
FFWCMH
OHC041-045-047-049-089-097-101-129-159-141-119-127-302245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
145 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN CENTRAL OHIO
          ...DELAWARE...FAIRFIELD...FAYETTE...FRANKLIN...LICKING
          ...MADISON...MARION...PICKAWAY...UNION
IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO
          ...ROSS
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
          ...MUSKINGUM...PERRY
 
AT 135 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED LIGHT RAIN OVER ALL
EXCEPT ROSS...FAIRFIELD...AND FAYETTE COUNTIES....WHERE HEAVIER RAIN
WAS OCCURRING. FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON...PERIODS OF HEAVY
RAIN WILL OCCUR OVER FAYETTE...ROSS...AND FAIRFIELD COUNTIES. OVER THE
REMAINDER COUNTIES...ONLY LIGHT RAIN IS EXPECTED.
HOWEVER...CONSIDERABLE FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN ALL AREAS...AND
STILL RISING WATERS IN STREAMS WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING THIS
AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING.
 
TRAVEL IS NOT RECOMMENDED ACROSS CENTRAL OHIO...DUE TO HIGH WATER ON
ROADS IN MANY AREAS.
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
GROH

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 30, 11:52 AM EST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
KYZ006-008-OHZ008-009-WVZ003-301645

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
1145 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990

...WIDESPREAD MODERATE RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHCENTRAL
OHIO AND NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...

AT 1145 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF MODERATE RAIN
WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MUCH OF SOUTHCENTRAL OHIO AND A
SMALL PART OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST
NORTH OF PORTSMOUTH OHIO IN SCIOTO COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS
NOT RECEIVED ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING WITH THESE STORMS BUT BRIEF HEAVY
DOWNPOURS WILL CAUSE SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE QUICKLY AND
WATER TO POND ON ROADWAYS.

BE ALERT TO APPROACHING WEATHER AND KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR RISING WATER.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS AS YOUR VEHICLE COULD
BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE FORCE OF EVEN SHALLOW WATER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

END/JMH
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 1:23 PM EST, 22 minutes before
KYZ006-008-OHZ008-009-WVZ003-301815

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
115 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990

AT 115 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER FROM PARKERSBURG SOUTHWEST TO
JUST SOUTHWEST OF HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH AND WERE PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY
DOWNPOURS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING QUICKLY
BUT STILL COULD CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING PROBLEMS ALONG SMALL STREAMS
AND CREEKS AND ON ROADWAYS.

BE ALERT TO APPROACHING WEATHER AND KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR RISING WATER.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS AS YOUR VEHICLE COULD
BE SWEPT AWAY BY THE FORCE OF EVEN SHALLOW WATER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

END/JMH
WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

END/JMH
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 1:27 PM EST, 18 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-VAZ015-016-302100-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
125 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990

  ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CROSS THE OHIO RIVER INTO WEST VIRGINIA...

A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS THE OHIO RIVER AT 115 PM
INTO WEST VIRGINIA FROM WAYNE COUNTY TO HUNTINGTON TO PARKERSBURG.
THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN MASON COUNTY 10 MILES WEST OF RIPLEY
AND IN NORTHERN CABELL COUNTY ALONG THE OHIO RIVER.  THE STORMS WILL
MOVE INTO WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA FROM HURRICANE AND
ST ALBANS TO GLENVILLE TO CLARKSBURG BY 215 PM.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO BETWEEN
40 AMD 50 MPH...AND SMALL HAIL.  THE MOVEMENT OF THE LINE WAS TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.  MOVEMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN
THE LINE WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

A FLOOD WATCH FOR STREAMS AND CREEKS IS ALSO IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING FOR WEST VIRGINIA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA.

END/REA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 30, 3:08 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXDelaware, Marion, Union4 hr
Dec 30, 6:20 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXMadison3 hr
Dec 30, 7:21 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXDelaware, Marion, Union3 hr
Dec 30, 8:27 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXFranklin, Licking, Pickaway3 hr
Dec 30, 9:22 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXFayette, Madison3 hr
Dec 30, 10:41 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXMuskingum3 hr
Dec 30, 10:41 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXDelaware, Marion, Union3 hr
Dec 30, 10:41 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXFairfield3 hr
Dec 30, 11:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXFranklin, Licking, Pickaway3 hr
Dec 30, 11:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXRoss3 hr
Dec 30, 11:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXPerry3 hr
Dec 30, 12:27 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXAthens, Hocking, Vinton3 hr
Dec 30, 12:27 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXMorgan3 hr
Dec 30, 12:40 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXFayette2 hr
Dec 30, 1:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXFayette, Madison, Pickaway, Ross4 hr
Dec 30, 1:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXDelaware, Marion, Union4 hr
Dec 30, 1:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXFairfield, Licking, Muskingum, Perry4 hr
Dec 30, 3:31 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXAthens, Hocking, Vinton4 hr
Dec 30, 3:31 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXMorgan4 hr
Dec 30, 5:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXFayette, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway, Union12 hr
Dec 30, 5:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXDelaware, Marion12 hr
Dec 30, 5:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXLicking, Muskingum, Perry12 hr
Dec 30, 5:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXRoss12 hr
Dec 30, 5:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXFairfield12 hr

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.