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Flash Flood Warning 72, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 1990, 2:49 PM EDT for Allegany County, Maryland; Mineral County, West Virginia. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1990, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1990, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allegany County, MD, Mineral 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEKN 151849 FFWEKN MDC001-WVC057-152045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 249 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST MARYLAND ...SOUTHERN ALLEGANY COUNTY IN EAST WEST VIRGINIA ...MINERAL COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT 245 PM EDT INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING ACROSS WESTERN MINERAL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA EXTENDING NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHWEST ALLEGANY COUNTY MARYLAND. GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE FLOODING TO LOW-LYING AREAS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. 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. 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 15, 11:38 AM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
WVZ006>008-151700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 1135 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 1990 AT 1130 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED A 5 MILE WIDE LINE OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM JUST NORTH OF UNION IN MONROE COUNTY NORTH TO CLEARCO IN NORTHERN GREENBRIER COUNTY. THIS LINE OF SHOWERS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 20 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING OUT OF WEST VIRGINIA BY AROUND 1 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CDB
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 11:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
WVZ006>008-151700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 1135 AM EDT SUN JUL 15 1990 AT 1130 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED A 5 MILE WIDE LINE OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM JUST NORTH OF UNION IN MONROE COUNTY NORTH TO CLEARCO IN NORTHERN GREENBRIER COUNTY. THIS LINE OF SHOWERS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 20 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING OUT OF WEST VIRGINIA BY AROUND 1 PM. BRIEF VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL OCCURE AS THESE SHOWERS MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CDB
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 12:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-VA015-016-151300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV 1240 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 1990 ...BE PATIENT WET VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWET VIRGINIA..DRY WEATHER IS ON THE WAY... AT NOON TODAY A COLD FRONT WAS MAKING ITS WAY ACROSS WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. THE FRONT EXTENDS FROM NEAR MORGANTOWN TO LEWISBURG AND SOUTH THROUGH THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY IN VIRGINIA...JUST TO THE WEST OF ROANOKE. A BAND OF SHOWERS HAS BEEN ACCOMPANYING THE FRONT AS IT MOVES EAST...AND SOME BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE. THE EXTENSIVE RAIN OF THE PAST FEW DAYS THAT HAS AFFECTED THE REGION WILL END TODAY. SOME CLEARING WILL TAKE PLACE IN WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA DURING THE AFTERNOON. SKIES ARE FORECAST TO BECOME PARTLY CLOUDY OVERNIGHT WITH CONSIDERABLE SUN EXPECTED MONDAY. MOST RIVERS ACROSS THE REGION WERE RUNNING ABOVE NORMAL...BUT NO RIVER FLOODING IS EXPECTED. THE LITTLE KANAWHA RIVER WAS SHOWING THE STRONGEST RISE WHERE LEVELS WERE RUNNING NEAR THREE QUARTER BANKFULL IN THE GLENVILLE AREA AT NOON. THE RIVER IS NEAR CREST AND WILL BEGIN FALLING DURING THE AFTERNOON. FURTHER DOWNSTREAM THROUGH GRANTSVILLE AND ELIZABETH A CREST OF A LITTLE OVER HALF BANKFULL IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. ALTHOUGH THE THREAT OF FLOOD PRODUCING RAINS HAS EASED OVER MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA...A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT IN FOR THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 400 PM THIS AFTERNOON. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR TH POTOMAC HIGHLANDS AND THE EASTERN PANHANDLE UNTIL 800 PM TONIGHT. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR BROOKE...HANCOCK AND OHIO COUNTIES IN THE NORTHERN PANH6ANDLE UNTIL 315 PM THIS AFTERNOON. END/PCZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 10:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Hampshire | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Maryland, 1990Flash 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.