Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 171, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Dec 30, 1990, 10:43 PM EST for Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 1990, 10:43 PM EST (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 1990, 12:45 AM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenbrier 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -304 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 KBKW 310345 RRA FFWBKW WVC025-310545- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 1043 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BECKLEY WV HAS ISSUED A SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...GREENBRIER COUNTY AT 1035 THE FLOOD COORDINATOR FOR GREENBRIER COUNTY REPORTED SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE OUT OF THEIR BANKS INCLUDING SPRING CREEK AND HOWARD CREEK. LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL OVER SOUTHERN AND EASTERN COUNTIES OF WEST VIRGINIA. 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. END/CGF
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, 5:59 PM EST, 4 hours 44 minutes before
WVZ006>008-310100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 600 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990 ...FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...AND THE GREENBRIER VALLEY UNTIL MIDNIGHT AND A FLOOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWEST COAL FIELD UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING... AT 550 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM WESTERN NICHOLAS COUNTY SOUTHWEST THROUGH WESTERN FAYETTE...SOUTHERN KANAWHA... SOUTHEASTERN BOONE...NORTHWEST RALEIGH...SOUTHERN LOGAN AND SOUTHERN MINGO COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VER.Y HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. SOME MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND RAODWAYS MAY OCCUR AS THEY MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. END/FUNDERBURK
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 6:12 PM EST, 4 hours 31 minutes before
WVZ006>008-310100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 600 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990 ...FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...AND THE GREENBRIER VALLEY UNTIL MIDNIGHT AND A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHWEST COAL FIELD UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING... AT 550 WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL EXTENDING FROM WESTERN NICHOLAS COUNTY SOUTHWEST THROUGH WESTERN FAYETTE...SOUTHERN KANAWHA... SOUTHEASTERN BOONE...NORTHWEST RALEIGH...SOUTHERN LOGAN AND SOUTHERN MINGO COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY; HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. SOME MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND ROADWAYS MAY OCCUR AS THEY MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. END/FUNDERBURK
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 8:13 PM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
WVZ006>008-310300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 810 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990 ...A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...AND THE GREENBRIER VALLEY UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 805 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED AN AREA OF LIGHT RAIN WITH PATCHES OF MODERATE RAIN COVERING THE SOUTHERN HALF OF WEST VIRGINIA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN FELL AT THE AIRPORT IN BECKLEY BETWEEN 630 AND 730 PM. THE GROUND HAS BEEN SATURATED FROM RECENT RAINFALL AND SNOWMELT SO MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND ROADWAYS MAY OCCUR AS THE RAIN CONTINUES FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. PERSONS LIVING NEAR SMALL STREAMS OR IN NORNAL FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD LISTEN FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. END/FUNDERBURK
Special weather statement, Dec 30, 8:24 PM EST, 2 hours 19 minutes before
WVZ006>008-310300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 810 PM EST SUN DEC 30 1990 ...A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS...AND THE GREENBRIER VALLEY... AT 805 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED AN AREA OF LIGHT RAIN WITH PATCHES OF MODERATE RAIN COVERING THE SOUTHERN HALF OF WEST VIRGINIA. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN FELL AT THE AIRPORT IN BECKLEY BETWEEN 630 AND 730 PM. THE GROUND HAS BEEN SATURATED FROM RECENT RAINFALL AND SNOWMELT SO MINOR FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND ROADWAYS MAY OCCUR AS THE RAIN CONTINUES FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. PERSONS LIVING NEAR SMALL STREAMS OR IN NORNAL FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD LISTEN FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. END/FUNDERBURK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 7:06 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph, Tucker, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 8:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Marion, Monongalia, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 8:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Preston | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 8:30 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis | 3 hr |
| Dec 30, 8:48 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 117 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.