Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 1990, 3:50 AM EDT for Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1990, 3:50 AM EDT (07:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1990, 6:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- 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, 7.8 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
- 1687 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 220752 FFWCRW WVC107-221045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 350 AM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...WOOD COUNTY THE CHARLESTON RADAR INDICATES THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY REDEVELOPING OVER WOOD COUNTY WHERE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ALREADY OCCURED OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS. AS A RESULT SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS CAN BE EXPECTED TO RISE WITH SOME COMING OUT OF THEIR BANKS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF F LOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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, Aug 22, 1:43 AM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
KYZ006-OHZ008-OHZ009-WVZ003-220800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 130 AM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO... AT 130 AM EDT THIS MORNING WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF MODERATE RAINFALL OVER SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SCIOTO AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN OHIO JUST OVER THE TOWN OF WAVERLY IN PIKE COUNTY...JUST WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF JACKSON IN JACKSON COUNTY AND JUST EAST OF WHELLERSBURG IN SCIOTO COUNTY. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST VERY SLOWLY. THERE HAS BEEN NO REPORTS OF FLOODING AT THIS TIME...BUT IF THE RAIN CONTINUES THERE SHOULD BE SOME SMALL STREAM AND URBAN FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. THIS ALSO MAY CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA WHERE FLOODING GENERAL TAKES PLACE KEEP AN EYE ON THE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE. 8REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST DETAILS CONCERNING THESE STORMS. END/COLLINS...
Special weather statement, Aug 22, 2:16 AM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
WVZ005-009-010-221125- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 215 AM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 AT 210 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THE NORTHERN EDGE OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS WITH SOME EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS FROM SOUTHEAST OHIO...THROUGH PARKERSBURG TO NORTHEAST RANDOLPH COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THESE SHOWERS WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. A THUNDERSTORM IS NOW LOCATED SW OF ELKINS MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST - NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED SOME HEAVY RAINFALL IN SOUTHWESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY OVER THE PAST HOUR. ONE AUTOMATED RAIN GAGE HAS REPORTED 1.07 INCHES IN THE LAST HOUR AND 15 MINUTES. OVER ONE-HALF AN INCH FELL IN JUST 15 MINUTES. PERSONS LIVING ALONG SMALL STREAMS OR CREEKS OR IN AREAS SUBJECT TO RAPID FLOODING SHOULD KEEP A CLOSE WATCH ON WATER LEVELS IN THERE AREA. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS HIGHWAYS OR PONDING WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTHS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHEcR RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCASTS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. END/GAV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 5:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 6:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 8:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 7:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 3 hr |
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.