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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Charleston, WV

March 23, 1993Preston County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 23, 1993, 11:55 PM EST for Preston County, West Virginia. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 23, 1993, 11:55 PM EST (04:55 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1993, 1:30 AM EST
In force
95 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Preston County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1993-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 1993-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 411 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
411 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
635 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 7:20 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXFayette, Mercer, Raleigh3 hr
Mar 23, 7:40 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXGreenbrier, Monroe, Summers3 hr
Mar 23, 8:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXMcDowell2 hr

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.