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Flash Flood Warning 92, NWS Charleston, WV

August 22, 1990Lincoln County, West Virginia

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1990-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 117 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1990-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 3:50 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWood3 hr
Aug 22, 5:31 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson3 hr
Aug 22, 6:31 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWood3 hr
Aug 22, 8:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson3 hr
Aug 22, 1:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWood2 hr
Aug 22, 7:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXHarrison3 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.