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Flash Flood Warning 99, NWS Charleston, WV

August 24, 1990Webster County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 24, 1990, 5:57 AM EDT for Webster County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 24, 1990, 5:57 AM EDT (09:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 1990, 10:00 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Webster 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 241003
FFWCRW
WVC101-241400-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
557 AM EDT FRI AUG 24 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...EASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY
 
THE OBSERVER AT BERGOO REPORTED THE HEADWATERS OF THE ELK RIVER RISING
RAPIDLY. AT 555 AM THE ELK RIVER AT BERGOO WAS 6 FEET. AT 8 FEET
THE ELK RIVER WILL OVERFLOW ITS BANKS. THIS RAPID RISE ON THE ELK
RIVER WAS DUE TO HEAVY RAINS THAT FELL ACROSS POCAHONTAS COUNTY
EARLIER THIS MORNING. STREAMS AND CREEKS AROUND BERGOO WILL
OVERFLOW ITS BANKS. NO RAIN WAS FALLING IN THE WARNED AREA.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...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.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TOg
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE 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 24, 5:31 AM EDT, 26 minutes before
WV003-KYZ006-OHZ009-241300

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
520 AM EDT FRI AUG 24 1990

PATCHY DENSE FOG HAS FORMED ACROSS THE TRI-STATE AREA THIS MORNING.

AT 5 AM THIS MORNING THE VISIBILITY IN SOME AREAS OF THE TRI STATE
WAS BELOW 1/4 OF A MILE.

THE FOG WILL LIKELY PERSIST INTO THE MIDNMORNING HOURS AND CAUSE TRAFFIC
SOME PROBLEMS ESPECIALLY DURING THE MORNING RUSH HOUR.

IF YOU ARE OUT TRAVELING THIS MORNING8 OR HEADED TO OR FROM WORK...PLEASE
USE YOUR LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS AND SLOW DOWN. GIVE YOURSELF PLENTY OF TIME
TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION.

COLLINS...

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 1:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas4 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.