Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1990, 6:58 PM EDT for Jackson County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 1990, 6:58 PM EDT (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1990, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1232 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 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 302258 FFWCRW WVC035-310200- URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 658 PM EDT MON JUL 30 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY DURING THIS AFTERNOON SATURATING THE GROUND AND BRINGING STREAMS AND CREEKS TO HIGH LEVELS. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WHICH COULD DROP AROUND 1 INCH IN AN HOUR WILL BE MOVING OVER JACKSON COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THIS WILL CAUSE SOME SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO COME OUT OF THEIR BANKS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. SINCE STREAMS ARE AT ELEVATED LEVELS ALREADY PERSONS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR RAPID RISES IN STREAM AND CREEK LEVELS AND BE PREPARED TO QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
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 30, 2:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
WVZ006>008-302100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 240 PM EDT MON JUL 30 1990 AT 235 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER NORTHERN MINGO AND WESTERN PUTNAM COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED IN THE LAST HOUR AND EXTENDS FROM SOUTHEAST OHIO NEAR AMESVILLE SOUTH THROUGH MASON AND PUTNAM COUNTIES TO NORTHERN MINGO COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. VERY HEAVY RAINS FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE SOME SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOODING. THUNDERSTORMS MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVpE THROUGH WEST VIRGINIA. GO TO A REINFORCED INDOOR SHELTER WHEN THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH AND WATCH FOR RISING WATER LEVELS. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING OCCURS. END/CGF
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 3:12 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-VAZ015-016-302100-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
310 PM EDT MON JUL 30 1990
...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVES INTO WEST VIRGINIA...
THUNDERSTORMS THAT FORMED IN EASTERN OHIO AND NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY
DURING THE PAST HOUR AND A HALF HAVE MOVED INTO WEST VIRGINIA.
AT 305 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CHARLESTON SHOWED A LINE OF
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...EXTENDING FROM CAMBRIDGE OHIO
TO MARIETTA AND PARKERSBURG TO RIPLEY IN JACKSON COUNTY TO NORTHWEST
OF CHARLESTON IN PUTNAM COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE
IN THE RIPLEY AND MARIETTA AREAS. ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS ALSO
EXTENDED SOUTH INTO MINGO COUNTY. FURTHER WEST THERE WERE SCATTERED
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS OVER NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY EXTENDING
NORTH TO NEAR COLUMBUS OHIO.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH.
END/REASpecial weather statement, Jul 30, 4:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
WVZ002>009-012-VAZ015-016-302200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 428 PM EDT MON JUL 30 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 415 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CHARLESTON SHOWED A LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...EXTENDING FROM 30 MILES WEST OF MORGANTOWN TO GRANTSVILLE TO SPENCER TO THE HUNTINGTON AND LOUISA KENTUCKY AREA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR GRANTSVILLE IN CALHOUN COUNTY...JUST SOUTH OF RIPLEY IN JACKSON COUNTY...AND SOUTHEAST OF HUNTINGTON IN WAYNE COUNTY. FURTHER WEST SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTHEAST KENTUCKY INTO SOUTHEAST OHIO. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE GLENVILLE AREA BY 500 PM...AND INTO THE CHARLESTON AREA AROUND 530 PM. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN ACCOMPANIED BY RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO AN INCH IN HALF AN HOUR. END/REA
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.