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Flash Flood Warning 98, NWS Charleston, WV

August 24, 1990Pocahontas County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 1990, 1:07 AM EDT for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 24, 1990, 1:07 AM EDT (05:07 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 1990, 5:15 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Pocahontas 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 217 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 00:00Z on 1990-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1990-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 240510
FFWEKN
WVC075-240915-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV
ISSUED BY CHARLESTON WV
107 AM EDT FRI AUG 24 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN EAST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...POCAHONTAS COUNTY
 
THE STATE POLICE AT ELKINS REPORTED FLASH FLOODING OCCURRING AT
CAMPBELLTOWN...WILLIAMS RIVER ROAD...AND STONEY CREEK ROAD. THERE ARE
3 ROADS WASHED OUT. 3.2 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN 2 HOURS.
 
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS 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.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDmGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
END/ORCHANIAN

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 23, 8:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
WVZ006>008-240300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV
818 PM EDT THU AUG 23 1990

AT 815 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS WITHIN AN AREA
FROM RICHWOOD TO WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS TO PRINCETON TO WELCH TO BECKLEY.
DUE TO LITTLE MOVEMENT THESE SHOWERS HAVE SHOWN DURING THE PAST HOUR...
SOME FLOODING ALONG SMALL STREAMS AND NORMAL FLOOD PRONE AREAS IS POSSIBLE
DURING THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS.

A WEATHER SERVICE IFLOWS RAIN GAGE MEASURED AN INCH OF RAIN DURING THE PAST
2 HOURS IN SOUTHERN RALEIGH COUNTY JUST SOUTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF GHENT.

PERSONS LIVING ALONG CREEKS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD KEEP WATCH ON
WATER LEVELS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGHER GR&OUND IF HEAVY RAIN PERSISTS.

END/MONEYPENNY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 5:57 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWebster4 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.