Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Apr 22, 1992, 1:26 AM EDT for Hardy County, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 1992, 1:26 AM EDT (05:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1992, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardy County, WV, Pendleton County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEKN 220537 COR FFWEKN WVC031-071-075-220700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 126 AM EDT WED APR 22 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST WEST VIRGINIA ...HARDY COUNTY...PENDLETON COUNTY...POCAHONTAS COUNTY MINOR SMALL STREAM FLOODING CONTINUES IN THE BRANDYWINE AREA OF PENDLETON COUNTY. THE LOW-WATER BRIDGE IN FRANKLIN ON THE SOUTH BRANCH OF THE POTOMAC IS STILL BLOCKED BY WATER. PROBLEMS WITH CULVERTS AND PONDING OF WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED. THE SOUTH BRANCH OF THE POTOMAC AT FRANKLIN CONTINUES TO RISE AND WILL PRODUCE SOME MINOR OVERFLOW PROBLEMS TONIGHT. AT THIS TIME NO MAJOR PROBLEMS ARE EXPECTED ON THE SOUTH BRANCH. SOME SMALL STREAMS ARE STILL RISING FROM THE RAINS OF TUESDAY EVENING IN POCAHONTAS COUNTY. HEAVY RAINS IN THE HEADWATERS OF KNAPPS CREEK HAS CAUSED THE STREAM TO BEGIN OVERFLOWING IT'S BANKS. SOME MINOR OVERFLOW FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG KNAPPS CREEK DOWNSTREAM INTO THE TOWN OF MARLINTON FOR NEXT THE COUPLE OF HOURS. WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THAT MOST SHOWER ACTIVITY HAD MOVED OUT OF THE WARNING AREAS AND ONLY A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. SINCE SEVERAL SMALL STREAMS ARE STILL OUT OF THEIR BANKS OR RUNNING HIGH, SOME MINOR OVERFLOW IS STILL POSSIBLE BEFORE THE RAINS COMPLETELY MOVE OUT OF THE AREA TONIGHT. A MODERATE RISE CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG THE SOUTH FORK OF THE SOUTH BRANCH OF THE POTOMAC RIVER FROM PENDLETON COUNTY DOWNSTREAM TO MOOREFIELD IN HARDY COUNTY. SOME PONDING OF WATER ALONG HIGHWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS MINERAL..GRANT..HAMPSHIRE INTO ALLEGANY COUNTY MARYLAND UNTIL THE SHOWER ACTIVITY MOVES OUT OF THE AREA AND WATER LEVELS RECEDE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. END FERRELL
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, Apr 21, 7:53 PM EDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV...CORRECTION... 745 PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 AT 740 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS WESTERN PIKE AND EASTERN ADAMS COUNTIES OF OHIO. THE LINE SHOULD MOVE THROUGH WESTERN HALF OF SCIOTO AND PIKE COUNTIES BY 830 PM. THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE IN LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY HAD DISSIPATED. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ....CORRECTION TO HEADER AND EXPIRATION TIME... END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 8:21 PM EDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 820 PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 AT 815 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH WITH THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE IN CENTRAL PIKE COUNTY OHIO NEAR THE TOWN OF PIKETON AND CENTRAL SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO. THE LINE SHOULD MOVE MOVE THROUGH EASTERN PIKE COUNTY BY 840 PM AND WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY OHIO AND EASTERN SCIOTO COUNTY BY 855 PM. BRIEF HEA;VY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 9:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 902 PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 AT 900 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH WITH THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE IN WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY OHIO. THE LINE SHOULD MOVE MOVE THROUGH ALL OF JACKSON COUNTY BY 850 PM. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS YOUR AEREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 9:23 PM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 923 PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 AT 915 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH WITH THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE IN CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY OHIO. THE LINE SHOULD MOVE MOVE THROUGH EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY BY 940 PM. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EASTERN ELLIOT COUNTY AND CENTRAL CARTER COUNTY KENTUCKY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE THROUGH EASTERN CARTER COUNTY AND WESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY BY 945 PM. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADI O FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 10:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 1005 PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 ....SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE TRI STATE.. AT 1005 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN BOYD COUNTY KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA BY 1040 PM EDT. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 10:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 1045 PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 ....SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DISSIPATING IN THE TRI STATE... AT 1045 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST OF THE TRI STATE. THESE STORMS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONT. SINCE THE COLD FRONT HAS MOVED THROUGH THUNDERSTORMS NO LONGER THREATEN THE TRI STATE. THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT. END/CICCONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 9:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Hardy | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 9:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pendleton, Pocahontas | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 1:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 94 min |
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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.