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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Charleston, WV

March 4, 1993Calhoun County, Gilmer County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 1993, 5:48 PM EST for Calhoun County, Gilmer County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 4, 1993, 5:48 PM EST (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Mar 4, 1993, 10:00 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Calhoun County, WV, Gilmer County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2902 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 4, 7:33 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXLewis3 hr
Mar 4, 8:04 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXDoddridge, Gilmer3 hr
Mar 4, 8:06 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXHarrison, Marion3 hr
Mar 4, 8:11 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXCalhoun3 hr
Mar 4, 9:17 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXWirt3 hr
Mar 4, 9:17 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXTyler3 hr
Mar 4, 9:25 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXGrant, Hardy, Pendleton3 hr
Mar 4, 9:25 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXHampshire, Mineral3 hr
Mar 4, 10:07 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXRoane4 hr
Mar 4, 10:29 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXHarrison, Lewis3 hr
Mar 4, 10:29 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXPutnam4 hr
Mar 4, 10:36 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson, Wood3 hr
Mar 4, 11:02 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXGrant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton3 hr
Mar 4, 11:13 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXCalhoun, Gilmer4 hr
Mar 4, 11:13 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXDoddridge4 hr
Mar 4, 12:06 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXWirt4 hr
Mar 4, 12:06 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXTyler4 hr
Mar 4, 12:31 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXRaleigh4 hr
Mar 4, 2:21 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson, Putnam3 hr
Mar 4, 2:21 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXWood3 hr
Mar 4, 2:21 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXHampshire, Hardy, Mineral3 hr
Mar 4, 4:16 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXDoddridge, Tyler4 hr
Mar 4, 10:47 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXDelaware, Madison, Union6 hr
Mar 4, 2:42 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXAthens, Fairfield, Hocking, Morgan, Perry3 hr
Mar 4, 2:42 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXVinton3 hr
Mar 4, 11:02 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXAllegany3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993

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.