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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Morristown, TN

August 13, 1992Dickenson County, Virginia

NWS Morristown, TN issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 1992, 9:01 AM EDT for Dickenson County, Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1992, 9:01 AM EDT (13:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1992, 12:00 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Morristown, TN
Area
Whole counties

County Dickenson County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-13Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 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 KTRI 131300
FFWTRI
VAC051-131600-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BRISTOL TN
901 AM EDT THU AUG 13 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BRISTOL HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...DICKENSON COUNTY
 
AT 840 AM EDT FLOODING WAS REPORTED BY AN EMERGENCY OFFICIAL IN
DICKENSON COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. THE OFFICIAL REPORTED SMALL
STREAM FLOODING AND SEVERAL SIDE STREETS UNDER WATER IN CLINTWOOD.
WATER IN SOME AREA WERE REACHING NEAR FLOOR LEVELS OF MOBILE HOMES.
AN AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SECTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN
VIRGINIA AND EASTERN KENTUCKY. LIGHTER RAINS WERE SCATTERED
OVER SECTIONS OF SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHEAST TENNESSEE  AND
WESTERN NORTH  CAROLINA. THESE RAINS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH A STATIONARY
FRONT TO THE SOUTH OF THE TRI CITIES AREA ALONG WITH A LOW PRESSURE
SYSTEM MOVING ALONG THE FRONT TO THE NORTHEAST. THE RAINS ARE EXPECTED
TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVENING.
 
 
 
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.

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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.