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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Charleston, WV

July 15, 19924 counties in Ohio

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1992-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1992-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMadison54 min
Jul 16, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXUnion58 min
Jul 16, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDelaware, Franklin61 min
Jul 16, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMarion61 min
Jul 16, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFairfield, Licking55 min
Jul 16, 5:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXFranklin, Madison2 hr
Jul 16, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFairfield, Pickaway60 min
Jul 16, 7:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPerry59 min
Jul 16, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXHocking65 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.