Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 71, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1990, 10:25 PM EDT for Harrison County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1990, 10:25 PM EDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1990, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harrison 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEKN 150225 FFWEKN WVC033-150530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 1025 PM EDT SAT JUL 14 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...HARRISON COUNTY HARRISON COUNTY FIRE RESCUE REPORTS FLOODING IN WILSONBURG JUST WEST OF THE CITY OF CLARKSBURG. WEATHER RADAR SHOWS MORE RAIN WITH SOME HEAVIER SHOWERS MOVING NORTH INTO HARRISON COUNTY. 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 SAFPELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. GILKERSON NNNN
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 14, 4:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
WVZ006>008-142200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 445 PM EDT SAT JUL 14 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 10 PN TONIGHT. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS..GREENBRIER COUNTY AND THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. AT 440 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS SOUHTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION EXTENDED FROM NEAR WELCH IN MCDOWELL COUNTY NORTH THROUGH WYOMING COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN BOON COUNTY. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WIND.. AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SOME MINOR FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS AS THESEs STORMS MOVE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER ARDIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/BRAMBLE
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:49 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
WVZ006>008-142200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 445 PM EDT SAT JUL 14 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 10 PN TONIGHT. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS..GREENBRIER VALLEY AND THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. AT 440 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS SOUHTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION EXTENDED FROM NEAR WELCH IN MCDOWELL COUNTY NORTH THROUGH WYOMING COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN BOONE COUNTY. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WIND.. AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SOME MINOR FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN LOW LYING FLOODy PRONE AREAS AS THESE STORMS MOVE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/BRAMBLE
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 5:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
WVZ006>008-142300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 540 PM EDT SAT JUL 14 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 10 PN TONIGHT. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS..GREENBRIER VALLEY AND THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. AT 537 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING ACROSS SOUHTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WAS A 12 MILE WIDE AREA THET EXTENDED FROM NORTHERN MCDOWELL COUNTY NORTH THROUGH CENTRAL WYOMING COUNTY THEN TO WESTERN RALEIGH COUNTY. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. SOME MINOR FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED IN LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS WITH THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/BRAMBLE
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 6:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
WVZ006>008-150000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 650 PM EDT SAT JUL 14 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS..GREENBRIER VALLEY AND THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. AT 645 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUHTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION PRECIPITATION EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTH OF GAULEY BRIDGE IN FAYETTE COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH BECKLEY IN RALEIGH COUNTY THEN THROUGH EASTERN WYOMING COUNTY ON SOUTH TO NEAR BLUEFEILD IN MERCER COUNTY. PATCHES OF MODERATE RAIN WAS ALSO SEEN IN MONROE AND GREENBRIER COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS AS THESE MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEHATHER INFORMATION. END/BRAMBLE
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 6:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
WVZ006>008-150000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 650 PM EDT SAT JUL 14 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS..GREENBRIER VALLEY AND THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. AT 645 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUHTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION EXTENDED FROM JUST SOUTH OF GAULEY BRIDGE IN FAYETTE COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH BECKLEY IN RALEIGH COUNTY THEN THROUGH EASTERN WYOMING COUNTY ON SOUTH TO NEAR BLUEFEILD IN MERCER COUNTY. PATCHES OF MODERATE RAIN WAS ALSO SEEN IN MONROE AND GREENBRIER COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS AS THESE MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATZEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/BRAMBLE
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 8:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
WVZ006>008-150200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 845 PM EDT SAT JUL 14 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 10 PM TONIGHT. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS..GREENBRIER VALLEY AND THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. AT 840 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUHTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION EXTENDED FROM WESTERN NICHOLAS COUNTY SOUTH THROUGH FAYETTE..RALEIGH COUNTIES TO JUST WEST OF HINTON IN SUMMERS COUNTY..ALSO OVER CENTRAL GREENBRIER COUNTY. PATCHES OF MODERATE RAIN WAS ALSO SEEN NEAR WILLIAMSON IN MINGO COUNTY. BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS AS THIS PRECIPITATION MOVES TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/BRAMBLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 2:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mineral | 116 min |
| Jul 15, 3:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Hampshire | 2 hr |
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.