Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Feb 26, 1992, 12:57 AM EST for Summers County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 1992, 12:57 AM EST (05:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 1992, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Summers County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 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 KBKW 260604 RRA FFWBKW WVC089-260900- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 1257 AM EST WED FEB 26 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BECKLEY WV HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHERN SUMMERS COUNTY AT 1255 AM EST...THE RAIN GUAGE AT THE BLUESTONE RIVER NEAR PIPESTEM WAS REPORTING THE RIVER NEAR BANKFUL AND RISING. NO RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA IN THE PAST FEW HOURS AND THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO CREST ABOUT TWO FEET ABOVE BANKFUL BY DAYBREAK. 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 GROUN
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, Feb 25, 11:05 PM EST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
WVZ007-008-160800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 1105 PM EST TUE FEB 25 1992 AT 1100 PM EST SOME SMALL STREAM FLOODING WAS REPORTED ALONG PIGEON CREEK NEAR OAKVALE IN MERCER COUNTY..ALSO SOME URBAN FLOODING IN THE BLUEFIELD AREA..RT 10 BETWEEN PRINCETON AND MATOKA IN MERCER COUNTY WAS REPORTED TO HAVE MUD AND SOME ROCKS ON IT..ALSO SOME URBAN FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN THE PRINCETON AREA. AT 1057 PM WEATHER RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWED ONLY PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN OVER SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA..HOWEVER WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED PEOPLE LIVING NEAR SMALL STREAMS AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS SHOULD WATCH WATER LEVELS IF ANY HEAVY RAIN IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WE'ATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CDB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mercer | 3 hr |
| Feb 26, 4:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Summers | 3 hr |
| Feb 26, 7:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Summers | 115 min |
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.