Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 1990, 8:00 AM EDT for Calhoun County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 1990, 8:00 AM EDT (12:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 1990, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calhoun 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 131219 COR FFWCRW WVC013-131500- BULLETIN SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING ...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 819 AM EDT FRI JUL 13 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED THE SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...CALHOUN COUNTY... AT 755 AM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CHARLESTON SHOWED AN AREA OF LIGHT RAIN OVER MOST OF WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. PATCHES OF MODERATE RAIN WERE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE LIGHT RAIN AREA. OES OFFICIALS IN CALHOUN COUNTY REPORT THAT MOST STREAMS CONTINUE TO RUN AT BANKFULL WITH SOME SMALL STREAMS OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS. THE CONTINUING RAINFALL WILL LIKELY BRING MORE STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. THE SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR GILMER..JACKSON AND ROANE COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED. STREAMS IN THOSE COUNTIES HAVE PEAKED AND THE HEAVIER RAIN HAS ENDED. STREAMS IN THESE COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH THROUGH THE MORNING. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOW ACROSS ROADWAYS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS DO NOT NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. END/ZINN
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, Jul 13, 6:04 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-VA015-016-120200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV 600 AM EDT FRI JUL 13 1990 THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER FORECASTS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MOST OF WEST VIRGINIA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PARKERSBURG TO NORTHERN TUCKER COUNTY... AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND/OR LARGE HAIL OVER SMALL AREAS. ADDITIONALLY...SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. END
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, 5:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Preston, Tucker | 3 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, 6:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour | 3 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.