Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1990, 5:22 AM EDT for Preston County, Tucker County, West Virginia; Garrett County, Maryland. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1990, 5:22 AM EDT (09:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1990, 8:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Garrett County, MD, 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 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 130922 FFWEKN MDC023-WVC077-093-131230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 522 AM EDT FRI JUL 13 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST MARYLAND ...SOUTHERN GARRETT COUNTY IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHERN PRESTON COUNTY...NORTHERN TUCKER COUNTY MODERATE RAINFALL HAS BEEN SHOWN OVER SOUTHERN GARRETT...NORTHERN TUCKER..AND SOUTHERN PRESTON COUNTIES FOR THE PAST THREE HOURS. REPORTS OF WATER OVER ROADWAYS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM SOUTHERN GARRETT AND NORTHERN TUCKER COUNTY. RADAR SHOWS THAT MODERATE RAINFALL CONTINUES OVER THESE COUNTIES. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRvY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. END/MH NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 11:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Preston | 115 min |
| Jul 13, 2:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Preston, Tucker | 117 min |
| Jul 13, 3:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Roane | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:56 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Roane | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:56 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 8:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 11:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Garrett | 116 min |
| Jul 12, 11:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Allegany | 115 min |
| Jul 13, 12:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Allegany, Garrett | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1990Flash Flood Warnings in Maryland, 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.