Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Apr 21, 1992, 9:48 PM EDT for Pendleton County, Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 1992, 9:48 PM EDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 1992, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pendleton County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEKN 220148 FFWEKN WVC031-071-075-220445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 948 PM EDT TUE APR 21 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST WEST VIRGINIA ...HARDY COUNTY...PENDLETON COUNTY...POCAHONTAS COUNTY MINOR SMALL STREAM FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE BRANDYWINE AREA OF PENDLETON COUNTY. THE LOW-WATER BRIDGE IN FRANKLIN ON THE SOUTH BRANCH OF THE POTOMAC IS BLOCKED BY WATER. PROBLEMS WITH CULVERTS AND PONDING OF WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED. THE SOUTH BRANCH OF THE POTOMAC AT FRANKLIN CONTINUES TO RISE AND WILL PRODUCE SOME MINOR OVERFLOW PROBLEMS TONIGHT. AT THIS TIME NO MAJOR PROBLEMS ARE EXPECTED ON THE SOUTH BRANCH. SMALL STREAMS ARE STILL RISING FROM THE RAINS OF THIS EVENING IN POCAHONTAS COUNTY. HEAVY RAINS IN THE HEADWATERS OF KNAPPS CREEK IS CAUSING THE STREAM TO RISE TO NEAR BANKFULL. SOME MINOR OVERFLOW FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ALONG KNAPPS CREEK DOWNSTREAM INTO THE TOWN OF MARLINTON. WEATHER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW MODERATE RAIN OVER EASTERN HARDY COUNTY. SMALL STREAMS ARE RUNNING HIGH AND SOME MINOR OVERFLOW IS POSSIBLE BEFORE THE RAINS MOVE OUT OF THE AREA TONIGHT. A MODERATE RISE CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG THE SOUTH FORK OF THE SOUTH BRANCH OF THE POTOMAC RIVER FROM PENDLETON COUNTY DOWNSTREAM TO MOOREFIELD IN HARDY COUNTY. MODERATE RAINS ARE MOVING ACROSS THE POTOMAC HIGHLANDS OF WEST VIRGINIA INTO ALLEGANY COUNTY OF WESTERN MARYLAND. PONDING OF WATER ALONG HIGHWAYS AND IN LOW LYING AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS MINERAL..GRANT..HAMPSHIRE INTO ALLEGANY COUNTY MARYLAND. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. END GI2LKERSON 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, Apr 21, 7:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIUONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 715PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ADAMS COUNTY OHIO AND LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE ON A LINE FROM WAVERLEY OHIO TO PORTSMOUTH OHIO TO GRAYSON KENTUCKY AROUND 830PM EDT. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS YOUR ARREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. SHUFF
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 7:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIUONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 745 PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 AT 740 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS WESTERN PIKE AND EASTERN ADAMS COUNTIES OF OHIO. THE LINE SHOULD MOVE THROUGH WESTERN HALF OF SCIOTO AND PIKE COUNTIES BY 830 PM. THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE IN LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY HAD DISSIPATED. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGERHOUS LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. CICCONE
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 7:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV...CORRECTION... 745 PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 AT 740 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS WESTERN PIKE AND EASTERN ADAMS COUNTIES OF OHIO. THE LINE SHOULD MOVE THROUGH WESTERN HALF OF SCIOTO AND PIKE COUNTIES BY 830 PM. THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE IN LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY HAD DISSIPATED. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ....CORRECTION TO HEADER AND EXPIRATION TIME... END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 8:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220055- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 820 PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 AT 815 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH WITH THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE IN CENTRAL PIKE COUNTY OHIO NEAR THE TOWN OF PIKETON AND CENTRAL SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO. THE LINE SHOULD MOVE MOVE THROUGH EASTERN PIKE COUNTY BY 840 PM AND WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY OHIO AND EASTERN SCIOTO COUNTY BY 855 PM. BRIEF HEA;VY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 9:03 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 902 PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 AT 900 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH WITH THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE IN WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY OHIO. THE LINE SHOULD MOVE MOVE THROUGH ALL OF JACKSON COUNTY BY 850 PM. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS YOUR AEREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, Apr 21, 9:23 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-OHZ009-220145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 923 PM EST TUE APR 21 1992 AT 915 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH WITH THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE IN CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY OHIO. THE LINE SHOULD MOVE MOVE THROUGH EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY BY 940 PM. STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN EASTERN ELLIOT COUNTY AND CENTRAL CARTER COUNTY KENTUCKY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE THROUGH EASTERN CARTER COUNTY AND WESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY BY 945 PM. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY CROSS YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADI O FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS. END/CICCONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 9:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Hardy | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 1:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Hardy, Pendleton | 94 min |
| Apr 22, 1:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 94 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.