Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Dec 2, 1991, 6:26 PM EST for Randolph County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 2, 1991, 6:26 PM EST (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 2, 1991, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Randolph County, WV, Tucker County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 83 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Dec 2, 3:23 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-012200 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 315 PM EST MON DEC 2 1991 ...RAINFALL CONTINUES ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN KENTUCKY AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 300 PM...MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS IN EASTERN KENTUCKY AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA ARE RUNNING AT BANKFULL. ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE. THIS WOULD BRING THESE STREAMS AND CREEKS INTO A FLOOD SITUATION. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS ARE ADVISED TO TAKE NECESSARY ACTION THE POTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERED ROADWAYS OR VENTURE NEED RIVER BANKS. HIGH WATERS CAN CAUSE EROSION CREATING AN UNSEEN DANGER. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 5 PM OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT...STAY TUNES TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UP TODATE REPORTS ON THE LATEST FLOOD INFORMATION. SMITH
Special weather statement, Dec 2, 3:36 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-012200 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 315 PM EST MON DEC 2 1991 ...RAINFALL CONTINUES ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN KENTUCKY AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 300 PM...MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS IN EASTERN KENTUCKY AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA WERE RUNNING AT BANKFULL. ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE. THIS WOULD BRING THESE STREAMS AND CREEKS INTO A FLOOD SITUATION. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS ARE ADVISED TO TAKE NECESSARY ACTION THE PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERED ROADWAYS OR VENTURE NEED RIVER BANKS. HIGH WATERS CAN CAUSE EROSION CREATING AN UNSEEN DANGER. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 5 PM OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WARRANT...STAY TUNES TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UP TODATE REPORTS ON THE LATEST FLOOD INFORMATION. SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2, 12:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 3 hr |
| Dec 2, 5:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Clay, Kanawha, Nicholas, Webster | 3 hr |
| Dec 2, 5:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Dec 2, 5:22 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Raleigh, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Dec 2, 5:22 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Dec 2, 6:26 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 3 hr |
| Dec 2, 6:26 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 3 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.