Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 98, NWS Charleston, WV
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 4 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.