Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 1992, 12:04 PM EDT for Barbour County, Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1992, 12:04 PM EDT (16:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1992, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, WV, Tucker County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
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 27, 6:41 AM EDT, 5 hours 23 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
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 9:59 AM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
WVZ006-007-008-271500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 958 AM EDT MON JUL 2' 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 300 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... AT 955 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWERS ..SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS AROUND BECKLEY IN RALEIGH COUNTY..WESTERN SUMMERS COUNTY AND OVER SOUTHEAST MINGO COUNTY. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN. SOME PONDING OF WATER ON RAODWAYS AND IN POOR DARINAGE AREAS WILL OCCUR WITH THE HEAVIER RAINS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CDB
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 10:04 AM EDT, 2 hours before
WVZ006-007-008-271500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 958 AM EDT MON JUL 29 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 300 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... AT 955 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWERS ..SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS AROUND BECKLEY IN RALEIGH COUNTY..WESTERN SUMMERS COUNTY AND OVER SOUTHEAST MINGO COUNTY. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN. SOME PONDING OF WATER ON RAODWAYS AND IN POOR DARINAGE AREAS WILL OCCUR WITH THE HEAVIER RAINS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CDB
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 10:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
WVZ006-007-008-271500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 958 AM EDT MON JUL 27 1992 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE NORTHERN TWO THIRDS OF WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 300 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... AT 955 AM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT BECKLEY SHOWERS ..SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS AROUND BECKLEY IN RALEIGH COUNTY..WESTERN SUMMERS COUNTY AND OVER SOUTHEAST MINGO COUNTY. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN. SOME PONDING OF WATER ON RAODWAYS AND IN POOR DARINAGE AREAS WILL OCCUR WITH THE HEAVIER RAINS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. ....CORRECTED FOR TODAYS DATE.... END/CDB
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, 9:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 118 min |
| 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, 12:52 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 |
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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.