Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 92, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 22, 1990, 3:30 PM EDT for Lincoln County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 1990, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 1990, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 581 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 221937 FFWCRW WVC043-222230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 330 PM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY SMALL STREAM FLOODING WAS REPORTED BY LINCOLN COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT IN THE REGION REFERRED TO AS THE FOUR MILE AREA OF BRANCHLAND TO THE WAYNE COUNTY BORDER. THIS INVOLVED THE SMALL STREAM OF RED RIVER FORK. TEN MILE CREEK IN THE CUZZIE/RANGER AREA...PLUS FRANCES CREEK NEAR HARTS ALSO HAS FLOODED. PRIVATE BRIDGES AND NUMEROUS CULVETS WERE DAMAGED. RAINFALL SHOULD DECREASE IN SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY BEFORE 5 PM. STREAMS SHOULD WILL SUBSIDE AFTER 6 PM. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOcUR 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
Local storm report, Aug 22, 9:42 AM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 935AM EDT WED AUG 22 1990 DATE... 8/22/90 TIME... 630AM - 7AM LOCATION...MEIGS COUNTY OHIO TYPE...FLASH FLOODING..ROUTE 684 CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING BETWEEN PAGEVILLE AND HARRISONVILLE INJURIES...NONE REPORTED FATALITIES...NONE REPORTED SOURCE...COUNTY SHERIFF DATE... 8/22/90 TIME... 645AM - 730AM LOCATION...JACKSON COUNTY OHIO TYPE...FLASH FLOODING...SEVERAL TOWNSHIP ROADS OFF ROUTE 35 TO THE EAST OF VEGA. INJURIES...NONE REPORTED FATALITIES...NONE REPORTED SOURCE...COUNTY SHERIFF DATE... 8/22/90 TIME... 7AM - 745AM LOCATION...GALLIA COUNTY OHIO TYPE...FLASH FLOODING..URBAN STREET...ALONG BOTH SIDES OF ROUTE 35 NEAR CENTERVILLE..RIO GRANDE AND RODNEY. INJURIES...NONE REPORTED FATALITIES...NONE REPORTED SOURCE...COUNTY SHERIFF DATE... 8/22/90 TIME... 730AM LOCATION...GALLIA AND MEIGS COUNTIES OF OHIO TYPE...FLASH FLOODING...ALONG STATE ROUTE 235 BETWEEN VINTON (GALLIA COUNTY) AND LANGSVILLE (MEIGS COUNTY). ROUTE 235 CLOSED AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS FOR ABOUT AN HOUR. INJURIES...NONE REPORTED FATALITIES...NONE REPORTED SOURCE...COUNTY SHERIFFS AND SPOTTER IN MEIGS COUNTY. END/DG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 3:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 3 hr |
| 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, 7:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 3 hr |
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.