Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 23, 1991, 6:25 AM EST for Boone County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 1991, 6:25 AM EST (11:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 1991, 9:30 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boone County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 303 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 453 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, Mar 23, 1:19 AM EST, 5 hours 6 minutes before
WVZ006-007-008-012-230800-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV
120 AM EST SAT MAR 23 1991
...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHERN
WEST VIRGINIA TONIGHT...
AT 115 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER FAYETTE...RALEIGH...AND WYOMING COUNTIES IN
WEST VIRGINIA.
AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR ELKINS...TO HINTON WEST
VIRGINIA AND BUCHANON COUNTY IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA EXTENDED
NORTHWEST TO NEAR HUNTINGTON AND ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF PARKERSBURG.
THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH
SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA EARLY THIS MORNING.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF SIX TENTHS TO 1 INCH IN THREE HOURS COULD
BEGIN FLASH FLOOD PROBLEMS.
THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...
CAUSING FLASH FLOODING. THESE THUNDERTORMS COULD ALSO
PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
PERSONS LIVING ALONG SMALL STREAMS OR IN NORMAL FLOOD PRONE AREAS
SHOULD WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.
STAY TUNED TO {NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
END/WJMSpecial weather statement, Mar 23, 1:28 AM EST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
WVZ006-007-008-012-230800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...C O R R E C T I O N NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 120 AM EST SAT MAR 23 1991 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA EARLY THIS MORNING... AT 115 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER FAYETTE...RALEIGH...AND WYOMING COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA. AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR ELKINS...TO HINTON WEST VIRGINIA AND BUCHANON COUNTY IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA EXTENDED NORTHWEST TO NEAR HUNTINGTON AND ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF PARKERSBURG. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA EARLY THIS MORNING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF SIX TENTHS TO 1 INCH IN THREE HOURS COULD BEGIN FLASH FLOOD PROBLEMS. THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING COULD PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... CAUSING FLASH FLOODING. THESE THUNDERTORMS COULD ALSO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS LIVING ALONG SMALL STREAMS OR IN NORMAL FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD WATCH FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/WJM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 5:39 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 6:11 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 6:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 8:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 3 hr |
| Mar 23, 1:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1991Every flash flood warning in 1991
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.