Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 15, 1992, 8:00 PM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1992, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1992, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fairfield County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Licking County, OH, Madison County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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, Jul 15, 2:11 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
WVZ006-007-008-151925- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 210 PM EDT WED JUL 15 1992 AT 205 PM...WEATHER RADAR AT BECKLEY INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN IN SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA WAS SOUTH OF BECKLEY IN RALEIGH COUNTY..IN WYOMING COUNTY EAST OF OCEANA AND EAST OF MULLINS..IN IN GREENBRIER COUNTY NEAR LEWISBURS AND NEAR RENICK..IN LOGAN COUNTY NEAR LOGAN. THE HEAVIEST RAIN IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA WAS IN TAZWELL COUNTY NORTH OF RAVEN AND SOUTHWEST OF TAZWELL. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 30 MPH AND ARE CAPABLE OF PROUDICING VERY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANDEROUS LIGHTNING.. AND PONDING OF WATER ON RAODWAYS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. IF THREATNING WEATHER IS OBSERVED GO TO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:11 PM EDT, 5 hours 49 minutes before
WVZ005-009-151915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 211 PM EDT WED JUL 15 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA... AT 200 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SOUTHWEST THROUGH EASTERN MONONGALIA COUNTY TO WEST OF CLARKSBURG IN HARRISON COUNTY AND ON SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTHERN WIRT COUNTY. OTHER SHOWERS WERE MOVING FROM EASTERN OHIO INTO THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA AND INTO WETZEL, TYLER, AND WOOD COUNTIES. THESE SYSTEMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST RAINFALL ON RADAR WAS LOCATED NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF FAIRMONT IN MARION COUNTY AND OVER THE WEST MILFORD AREA OF HARRISON COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL BROADCASTS FOR THE LATEST UPDATES. END/GAV NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Madison | 54 min |
| Jul 16, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Union | 58 min |
| Jul 16, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Delaware, Franklin | 61 min |
| Jul 16, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Marion | 61 min |
| Jul 16, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fairfield, Licking | 55 min |
| Jul 16, 5:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Franklin, Madison | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fairfield, Pickaway | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 59 min |
| Jul 16, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Hocking | 65 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.