Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 1992, 9:02 AM EDT for Randolph County, West Virginia. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1992, 9:02 AM EDT (13:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1992, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEKN 271302 FFWEKN WVC083-271500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 902 AM EDT MON JUL 27 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...CENTRAL RANDOLPH COUNTY FLOODING IS OCCURING ALONG FILES CREEK IN CENTRAL RANDOLPH COUNTY. HEAVY RAINS CONTINUE ON THE UPPER REACHES OF FILES CREEK. THE STREAM IS RISING RAPIDLY. THIS STREAM FLOWS INTO THE TYGART VALLEY RIVER IN THE TOWN OF BEVERLY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT. IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO STREAMS...RIVERS...OR CREEKS WHICH CAN BECOME KILLERS IN HEAVY RAINS. CAMPERS SHOULD AVOID CAMPING ALONG STREAMS OR CREEKS DURING THREATENING RAINS. END GILKERSON/HILL NNNN
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 27, 6:41 AM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
WVZ005-009-271145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 641 AM EDT MON JUL 27 1992 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOW A SMALL AREA OF MODERATE RAIN OVER SOUTHERN UPSHUR COUNTY NEAR ALEXANDER TO THE EAST INTO CENTRAL RANDOLPH COUNTY NEAR HUTTONSVILLE. THE AREA OF RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. A RADIO REPORTING RAINGAGE IN WESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY SHOWS THIS AREA OF RAIN IS PRODUCING NEAR ONE INCH OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR. THIS INTENSITY OF RAIN MOVING OVER GROUND SATURATED FROM THE RAINS OF THE PAST FEW DAYS WILL CAUSE SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE QUICKLY. SOME PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE AND SOME SMALL STREAMS MAY APPROACH BANKFULL. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A SMALL STREAM OR CREEK...AND WATER LEVELS BEGIN TO RISE...GO TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER OF UNKNOWN DEPTHS. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 8:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph, Upshur | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 8:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Preston | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 11:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 11:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 12:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Tucker | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 12:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 1:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer | 115 min |
| Jul 27, 1:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 1:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 5:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 5:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Raleigh, Wyoming | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 6:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1992Every flash flood warning in 1992
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.