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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Charleston, WV

March 4, 1993Tyler County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 4, 1993, 9:17 AM EST for Tyler County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 4, 1993, 9:17 AM EST (14:17 UTC)
Expired
Mar 4, 1993, 12:00 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Tyler County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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, Pittsburgh, PA 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.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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1993-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 247 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
592 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 041417
FFWCRW
WVC095-105-041700-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
917 AM EST THU MAR 4 1993

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 12 NOON TODAY...
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......

IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA

   ...TYLER AND WIRT COUNTIES

HEAVY RAINFALL WAS CAUSING STREAMS TO RISE RAPIDLY ACROSS WIRT COUNTY
WITH WATER EXPECTED TO OVERFLOW THE BANKS OF SPRING CREEK IN SOUTHERN
WIRT COUNTY.

IN TYLER COUNTY.. WATER WAS OVER SEVERAL SECONDARY ROUTES.  POINT
PLEASANTS CREEK WAS OVER ELK FORK ROAD.. NORTH OF MIDDLEBOURNE...
AND SELLERS ROAD WAS CLOSED EAST OF MIDDLEBOURNE.

DO NOT DRIVE VEHICLES INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE
WATER MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES IN
RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABONDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.


END/BDG

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, Mar 4, 8:54 AM EST, 23 minutes before
WVZ003-KYZ006-009-OHZ008-009-041500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
850 AM EST THU MAR 04 1993

...RAINS CAUSING MINOR FLOODING ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY.....

RAINFALL AMOUNTS OVERNIGHT RANGED FROM ABOUT ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH
TO AROUND ONE AND ONE QUARTER OF AN INCH.  THIS WAS PRODUCING MINOR
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS, LARGE PUDDLES ON ROADS AND HIGH RUNNING
STREAMS AND CREEKS.

AT 850 AM MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED TO FALL ACROSS ALL OF THE OHIO VALLEY.
THE HEAVIEST RAIN AROUND THE TRI-STATE AREA WAS FALLING OVER NORTHERN
MASON COUNTY OF WEST VIRGINIA AND GALLIA AND MEIGS COUNTIES OF OHIO.

RAIN, MODERATE AT TIMES, WILL CONTINUE TO FALL THROUGHOUT THE DAY.  MINOR
FLOODING WILL CONTINUE, BUT NO MAJOR FLOODING IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

WHEN OUT AND ABOUT TODAY, SLOW DOWN IF YOU ARE DRIVING AND BE CAREFUL OF
WATER OVER THE ROAD.  REMEMBER, HIGH RUNNING CREEKS AND STREAMS CAN BE
VERY DANGEROUS, SO lTRY TO AVOID THESE AT ALL TIMES.

END/COSTELLO

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, 9:25 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, 5:48 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXCalhoun, Gilmer4 hr

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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.