Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Nov 12, 1992, 7:47 PM EST for Marion County, Ohio. It was in force for 118 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 12, 1992, 7:47 PM EST (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 1992, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -407 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -339 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCMH 130050 FFWCMH OHC101-130245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH 747 PM EST THU NOV 12 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBUS HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING E
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, Nov 12, 6:00 PM EST, 1 hour 47 minutes before
WVZ002-009-012-130200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 550 PM EST THU NOV 12 1992 GUSTY WINDS FROM THE WEST AND NORTHWEST WILL USHER IN THE COLDER AIR TONIGHT. BETWEEN 5 AND 6 O'CLOCK...THE LEADING EDGE OF COLDER AIR... OR COLD FRONT...WAS NEAR COLUMBUS OHIO...THEN SOUTH...DOWN THE SCIOTO RIVER VALLEY TO NEAR MOREHEAD AND JACKSON IN EASTERN KENTUCKY. THE FRONT SHOULD REACH THE HUNTINGTON REGION BETWEEN 6:30 PM AND 7 PM. AROUND 8 PM...THE FRONT WILL BE ALONG A LINE FROM PARKERSBURG SOUTH TO RIPLEY...CHARLESTON...MADISON AND WILLIAMSON. BY 9:30 OR 10 PM...THE FRONT WILL BE REACHING NEAR THE CLARKSBURG...FAIRMONT...MORGANTOWN REGION. BETWEEN 10 PM AND MIDNIGHT...WINDS WILL BE INCREASING OVER THE MOUNTAINS. WINDS COULD GUST BRIEFLY TO NEAR 50 MPH IN THE MID OHIO VALLEY ...AROUND PARKERSBURG...SISTERSVILLE...AND NEW MARTINSVILLE ...PLUS NORTHERN COMMUNITIES AROUND CLARKSBURG AND MORGANTOWN. WINDS COULD GUST TO NEAR 40 MPH FOR THE HUNTINGTON TO CHARLESTON REGION BEHIND THE FRONT. SECURE LOOSE OBJECTS /TRASH CANS..CHAIRS ETC/ BEFORE THE FRONT ARRIVES. SOME MINOR DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE TO A FEW VULNERABLE OR WEAK STRUCTURES LIKE SIGNS AND AWNINGS. RIVER PILOTS NAVIGATING THE OHIO RIVER WILL HAVE AN ADDITIONAL FORCE APPLIED TO THOSE LONG COAL BARGES. WINDS WILL REMAIN NOTICEABLE INTO FRIDAY...BUT THE POTENTIAL FOR THE STRONGER WIND GUSTS ARE JUST FOR THE FEW HOURS AFTER THE FRONT PASSES. END / BATTY / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
Special weather statement, Nov 12, 7:15 PM EST, 32 minutes before
WVZ006-007-008-012-130200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 715 PM EST THU NOV 12 1992 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS OVER SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA... AT 710 PM BECKLEY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS STRETCHING FROM RIPLEY SOUTH THROUGH ST. ALBANS TO WILLIAMSON. THESE SHOWERS REPRESENTED A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA. WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FRONT GUSTED TO 44 MILES AN HOUR AT HUNTINGTON...AND SIMILAR CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER MINGO... LOGAN...MCDOWELL...AND WYOMING COUNTIES OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO WITH WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR GUSTING TO 40 OR 45. AS THIS FRONT MOVES EAST TOWARD OAK HILL...BECKLEY...A2ND BLUEFIELD BY 800 PM...WINDS WILL PICK UP AND BECOME GUSTY. THIS FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH HINTON BY 900 PM...SO PERSONS THERE CAN EXPECT HIGH WIND GUSTS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/WJM
Special weather statement, Nov 12, 7:16 PM EST, 31 minutes before
WVZ006-007-008-012-130200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 715 PM EST THU NOV 12 1992 ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS OVER SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA... AT 710 PM BECKLEY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF SHOWERS STRETCHING FROM RIPLEY SOUTH THROUGH ST. ALBANS TO WILLIAMSON. THESE SHOWERS REPRESENTED A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA. WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FRONT GUSTED TO 44 MILES AN HOUR AT HUNTINGTON...AND SIMILAR CONDITIONS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER MINGO... LOGAN...MCDOWELL...AND WYOMING COUNTIES OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO WITH WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR GUSTING TO 40 OR 45. AS THIS FRONT MOVES EAST TOWARD OAK HILL...BECKLEY...A<ND BLUEFIELD BY 800 PM...WINDS WILL PICK UP AND BECOME GUSTY. THIS FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH HINTON BY 900 PM...SO PERSONS THERE CAN EXPECT HIGH WIND GUSTS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/WJM
Special weather statement, Nov 12, 7:38 PM EST, 9 minutes before
WVZ003-OHZ009-KYZ006-130400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 737 PM EST THU NOV 12 1992 ...STRONG WINDS BUFFETING THE TRI STATE TONIGHT... A COLD FRONT IS MOVING THROUGH THE MIDDLE OHIO VALLEY PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS THROUGHOUT THE HUNTINGTON...ASHLAND...IRONTON TRI STATE AREA. GUSTS UP TO 46 MPH WERE RECORDED AT THE TRI STATE AIRPORT AT 654 PM. THE OHIO HIGHWAY PATROL HAS REPORTED BLOWN DOWN TREES IN LAWRENCE AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN OHIO. THIS HAS BEEN THE ONLY REPORTS TO THIS TIME. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE TRI STATE...THEN DIMINISH SOMEWHAT ON FRIDAY. PLYBON
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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.