Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 74, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 20, 1990, 8:31 PM EDT for Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1990, 8:31 PM EDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1990, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wood 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 00:00Z, 0.5 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
- 1263 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1210 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 KCRW 210033 FFWCRW WVC107-210300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 831 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...WOOD COUNTY THUNDERSTORMS MOVED INTO WOOD COUNTY DURING THE LAST TWO HOURS AND HAVE NOW STALLED IN THEIR SOUTHEAST MOVEMENT. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH MEIGS COUNTY OHIO TOWARDS WOOD COUNTY AND ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. PONDING OF WATER AND SOME SMALL STREAM OVERFLOW IS LIKELY AS THE RAIN CONTINUES. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO WEAKEN AFTER 1000 PM AND RAINFALL SHOULD BECOME MUCH LIGHTER AT THAT TIME. 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.
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 20, 2:33 PM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
WVZ006>008-202000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 233 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 AT 228 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR BECKLEY IN RALEIGH COUNTY NORTH INTO NICHOLAS COUNTY AND EAST THROUGH GREENBRIER COUNTY..ON INTO VIRGINIA NEAR STUNTON..SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO SEEN IN WYOMING COUNTY IN SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. VERY HEAVY RAIN..GUSTY WINDS..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE SLOWLY THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA THIS AFTERNOON. THE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING IN LOW LYING FLOOD PRONE AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CDB
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 3:47 PM EDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
WVZ001-002-003-004-005-009-202200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV 345 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DOTTED CENTRAL AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA DURING THE HEAT OF THE LATE AFTERNOON. IN THE MUGGY AIR...ISOLATED DOWNPOURS COULD BRIEFLY COOL DOWN SOME RESIDENTS. AT 3:30 PM...THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE LOCATED OVER THE LOWER KANAWHA VALLEY IN MASON COUNTY AND INTO JACKSON COUNTY. THESE STORMS COULD AFFECT SOUTHERN WOOD...WIRT AND NORTHERN ROANE COUNTIES BETWEEN 4 AND 5 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALONG THE DODDRIDGE/LEWIS COUNTY LINE WEST OF WESTON AND NEAR GRAFTON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES PER HOUR. NO DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OR LARGE HAIL WAS INDICATED WITH THESE PARTICULAR STORMS AT 3:30 PM. A MORE EXTENSIVE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM NEAR WHEELING WESTWARD TO CAMBRIDGE...ZANESVILLE...AND COLUMBUS. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AND BRING MORE DOWNPOURS INTO THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA EARLY THIS EVENING. SO THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE HAS THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SOME WATER PROBLEMS IN WEST VIRGINIA EARLY THIS EVENING. /MONITOR STATEMETNS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN PITTSBURGH/ A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINED POSTED FOR THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE PLUS THE COUNTIES OF WETZEL...TYLER...MONONGALIA...AND MARION UNTIL 8 PM. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO IN EFECT FOR THE NXORTHERN PANHANDLE COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT. END/BATTY
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:11 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
WVC005-009-MDC008-009-202200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 5:10 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT FOR MONONGALIA...WETZEL..TYLER AND MARION COUNTIES OF NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 5:05 PM EDT INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EASTERN OHIO EAST ACROSS MARSHALL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA NORTH OF MONONGALIA COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST WHILE THE ENTIRE LINE IS DROPPING SLOWLY SOUTH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO MONONGALIA AND WETZEL COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO INDICATED EXTENDING FROM BARBOUR COUNTY NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN PRESTON COUNTY. SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVED ACROSS SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. PERSONS LIVING ALONG..OR WITH RECREATIONAL INTERESTS ALONG SMALL STREAMS OR CREEKS IN THE AREA OF THESE STORMS SHOULD WATCH WATER LEVELS CLOSELY. IF WATER LEVELS BEGIN RISING QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. HEAVY THUNDERSTORM RAINS CAN CAUSE RAPID PONDING OF WATER AND FLOODING TO POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. KEEP A WATCH ON THE SKY AND MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. GILKERSON NNNN
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
WVZ001-002-003-004-005-009-210000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV 545 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 AT 540 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG THE WEST VIRGINIA... PENNSYLVANIA BORDER FROM JUST NORTH OF MORGANTOWN WEST THROUGH NORTHERN WETZEL COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA AND THEN SOUTHWEST INTO WASHINGTON AND HOCKING COUNTIES IN OHIO. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WITHIN THIS LINE MAY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... GUSTY SURFACE WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES OR A WARNING IS ISSUED...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. THE COMMINITIES OF MORGANTOWN...NEW MARTINSVILLE...SISTERSVILLE... ST MARYS AND PARKERSBURG WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. END/PCZ
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
WVZ001-002-003-004-005-009-210030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV 612 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONONGALIA COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WETZEL AND TYLER COUNTIES... AT 610 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CHARLESTON SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF PARKERSBURG THROUGH PLEASANTS AND EASTERN TYLER AND WETZELS COUNTIES INTO MONONGALIA COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO DODDRIDGE...MARION...HARRISON...AND PRESTON COUNTIES. END/REA
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 7:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
WVZ001-002-003-004-005-009-210200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV 720 PM EDT FRI JUL 20 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONONGALIA COUNTY UNTIL 745 PM... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WOOD COUNTY... AT 715 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CHARLESTON SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST CROSSING THE OHIO RIVER AND ENTERING WESTERN WOOD COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN RITCHIE COUNTY ...ON TE TUCKER...RANDOLPH COUNTY LINE BETWEEN ELKINS AND PARSONS... AND OVER SOUTHERN PRESTON COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM CROSSING THE OHIO RUVER WILL BE AFFECTING WOOD COUNTY...MAINLY FROM THE PARKERSBURG AREA SOUTH INTO NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY REACH WESTERN SECTIONS OF WIRT COUNTY BY 800 PM. END/PCZ
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.