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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Charleston, WV

June 9, 1990Muskingum County, Perry County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 1990, 4:25 AM EDT for Muskingum County, Perry County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1990, 4:25 AM EDT (08:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1990, 7:30 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Muskingum County, OH, Perry 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

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1187 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCMH 090831 COR
FFWCMH
OHC045-119-127-091130-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
425 AM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A
SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN CENTRAL OHIO
          ...FAIRFIELD
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
          ...MUSKINGUM...PERRY

AT 425 AM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING VERY HEAVY RAIN
FROM ZANESVILLE IN MUSKINGUM COUNTY SOUTHWEST THROUGH CROOKSVILLE TO
SHAWNEE IN PERRY COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30
MILES AN HOUR.
FAIRFIELD COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED THAT PAW PAW CREEK WAS OVERFLOWING
AND SEVERAL STREETS ARE CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.  ALSO PICKERINGTON
IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY REPORTED OVER 5 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST 24 HOURS.
IN MUSKINGUM COUNTY SEVERAL STREAMS OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS HAVE CAUSED
FLOODING AT WHITE COTTAGE.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.  IF FLASH FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.  DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

$$
...CORRECTED DUE TO OVERPRINTING...
HOLMES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Licking	61 min
Jun 8, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Franklin	66 min
Jun 8, 8:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Delaware, Union	3 hr
Jun 8, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Delaware	67 min
Jun 8, 9:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Muskingum	61 min
Jun 8, 10:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fairfield, Franklin	67 min
Jun 8, 10:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Franklin, Licking	4 hr
Jun 8, 11:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Madison	56 min
Jun 9, 4:25 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Fairfield	3 hr
Jun 9, 6:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Delaware, Licking	3 hr
Jun 9, 6:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Union	3 hr
Jun 9, 9:15 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Licking	4 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.