Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 1990, 3:21 PM EDT for Hampshire County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1990, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1990, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hampshire 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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 151921 FFWEKN WVC027-152130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 321 PM EDT SUN JUL 15 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST WEST VIRGINIA ...HAMPSHIRE COUNTY WEATHER RADAR AT 317 PM EDT INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST ALLEGANY COUNTY MARYLAND EXTENDING SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN MINERAL COUNTY. THESE STORMS PRODUCED NEARLY 1.00 OF RAIN IN WESTERNPORT AND STILL RAINING HARD. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN WESTERNPORT WITH BASEMENTS AND STREETS FLOODED. THE AREA OF STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE CITY OF CUMBERLAND MARYLAND AND ACROSS HAMPSHIRE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS WILL OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS. 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. 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 43 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 36 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 38 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, 2:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mineral | 116 min |
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.