Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 99, NWS Charleston, WV
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.
- 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 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 1:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 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.