Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Dec 5, 1993, 6:00 AM EST for Randolph County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 5, 1993, 6:00 AM EST (11:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 5, 1993, 9:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 KEKN 051100 RRA FFWEKN WVC083-051400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 600 AM EST SUN DEC 5 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...RANDOLPH COUNTY RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINS OF THE PAST 12 HOURS HAS PUSHED SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS UP TO BANKFULL WITH SOME STARTING TO OVERFLOW. CRAVEN RUN..THAT FLOWS THROUGH THE CITY OF ELKINS..IS STARTING TO OVERFLOW ITS BANKS WITH WATER APPROACHING SOME HOMES. POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ON ROUTE 219 SOUTH BETWEEN HUTTONSVILLE AND VALLEY HEAD AND ON ROUTE 219 NORTH NEAR LAUREL MOUNTAIN. RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN OVER RANDOLPH AND TUCKER COUNTIES. THIS RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE ALSO RUNNING HIGH IN TUCKER COUNTY AND WITH THE ADDITIONAL RAINS EARLY THIS MORNING SOME OF THESE STREAMS COULD OVERFLOW. 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. VEHI0CLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. END GILKERSON ...CORRECTION FOR HEADER... NNNN 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, Dec 5, 2:23 AM EST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
WVZ021-022-023-030-031-032-039-040-041-046-047-050930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 223 AM EST SUN DEC 5 1993 ...RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA... WEATHER RADAR AT 215 AM INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN COVERING MOST OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA. SOME POCKETS OF HEAVIER RAIN WERE SHOWN OVER RANDOLPH COUNTY EXTENDING WEST INTO LEWIS COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. THE AUTOMATED RAIN GAGE NETWORK (IFLOWS) INDICATED RAINFALL FROM 1 TO A LITTLE OVER 2 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS WERE IN RANDOLPH...POCAHONTAS... WEBSTER AND TUCKER COUNTIES. AS THE RAIN CONTINUES OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS SOME FLOODING TO LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS POSSIBLE. PONDING WATER ON HIGHWAYS WILHAMPER AUTO TRAVEL. SMALL STREAMS WILL LIKELY SHOW A NOTICEABLE RISE. PERSONS ACROSS THE ABOVE MEMTIONED AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO PONDING WATER ON ROADS...FLOODING TO POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND IF YOU LIVE ALONG OR NEAR A FLOOD PRONE STREAM...KEEP A WATCH ON WATER LEVELS. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. END GILKERSON NNNN
Special weather statement, Dec 5, 2:23 AM EST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
WVZ021-022-023-030-031-032-039-040-041-046-047-050930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 223 AM EST SUN DEC 5 1993 ...RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA... WEATHER RADAR AT 215 AM INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN COVERING MOST OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA. SOME POCKETS OF HEAVIER RAIN WERE SHOWN OVER RANDOLPH COUNTY EXTENDING WEST INTO LEWIS COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. THE AUTOMATED RAIN GAGE NETWORK (IFLOWS) INDICATED RAINFALL FROM 1 TO A LITTLE OVER 2 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS WERE IN RANDOLPH...POCAHONTAS... WEBSTER AND TUCKER COUNTIES. AS THE RAIN CONTINUES OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS SOME FLOODING TO LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS POSSIBLE. PONDING WATER ON HIGHWAYS WILHAMPER AUTO TRAVEL. SMALL STREAMS WILL LIKELY SHOW A NOTICEABLE RISE. PERSONS ACROSS THE ABOVE MEMTIONED AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO PONDING WATER ON ROADS...FLOODING TO POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND IF YOU LIVE ALONG OR NEAR A FLOOD PRONE STREAM...KEEP A WATCH ON WATER LEVELS. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. END GILKERSON NNNN
Special weather statement, Dec 5, 2:28 AM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
WVZ021-022-023-030-031-032-039-040-041-046-047-050930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 223 AM EST SUN DEC 5 1993 ...RAIN CONTINUES ACROSS NORTHERN AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA... WEATHER RADAR AT 215 AM INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN COVERING MOST OF NORTHERN AND EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA. SOME POCKETS OF HEAVIER RAIN WERE SHOWN OVER RANDOLPH COUNTY EXTENDING WEST INTO LEWIS COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. THE AUTOMATED RAIN GAGE NETWORK (IFLOWS) INDICATED RAINFALL FROM 1 TO A LITTLE OVER 2 INCHES ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHERN AND EATERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST AMOUNTS WERE IN RANDOLPH...POCAHONTAS...WEBSTER AND TUCKER COUNTIES. AS THE RAIN CONTINUES OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS SOME FLOODING TO LOW-LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS POSSIBLE. PONDING WATER ON HIGHWAYS WILL HAMPER AUTO TRAVEL. SMALL STREAMS WILL LIKELY SHOW A NOTICEABLE RISE. PERSONS ACROSS THE ABOVE MEMTIONED AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT TO PONDING, WATER ON ROADS...FLOODING TO POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND IF YOU LIVE ALONG OR NEAR A FLOOD PRONE STREAM...KEEP A WATCH ON WATER LEVELS. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. END GILKERSON
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.