Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 7, 1994, 3:20 PM EST for Cabell County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 1994, 3:20 PM EST (20:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 1994, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabell County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 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 KHTS 072020 FFWHTS WVC011-099-072215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 320 PM EST FRI JAN 7 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHERN CABELL COUNTY...SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY AT 320PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED MORE HEAVY RAINS OVER THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUNDS OF THESE WEST VIRGINIA COUNTIES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL LIKELY BRING SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS OUT BACK OUT OF THEIR BANKS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. TzHE 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/D. GEORGE
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, Jan 7, 1:42 PM EST, 1 hour 38 minutes before
KYZ069-086>088-106-108>118-120-072145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 142 PM EST FRI JAN 7 1994 ...RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW LATE THIS AFTERNOON... AT 130 PM...LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY WITH PATCHY AREAS OF MODERATE RAIN. MANY CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY WERE RECEIVING WITH A FEW STILL AT OR NEAR BANKFULL. AS COLDER AIR PUSHES ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON...THE RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW. MOTORIST THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION ACROSS AREA ROADWAYS DUE TO STANDING OR PONDING OF WATER AND LATER AS THE COLDER AIR ARRIVES MANY WET ROADS WILL DEVELOP SLICK SPOTS. ALSO DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ANY WATER COVERED ROADS ACROSS THE AREA. MOTORIST SHOULD ALSO PLAN AHEAD THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH COLDER AIR ARRIVING THIS EVENING. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET TO THE LOWER 20S BY LATE EVENING. THIS WILL MAKE ROADS ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN REGION VERY SLICK AND DANGEROUS BY LATE EVENING. IF YOU NEED TO GO OUT... THIS AFTERNOON IS THE BEST TIME AS ROAD CONDITIONS WILL BEGIN TO DETERIATE BY EARLY EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WAIDLEY
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 1:45 PM EST, 1 hour 35 minutes before
KYZ069-086>088-106-108>118-120-072145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 142 PM EST FRI JAN 7 1994 ...RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW LATE THIS AFTERNOON... AT 130 PM...LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY WITH PATCHY AREAS OF MODERATE RAIN. MANY CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY WERE RECEIVING WITH A FEW STILL AT OR NEAR BANKFULL. AS COLDER AIR PUSHES ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON...THE RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW. MOTORIST THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION ACROSS AREA ROADWAYS DUE TO STANDING OR PONDING OF WATER AND LATER AS THE COLDER AIR ARRIVES MANY WET ROADS WILL DEVELOP SLICK SPOTS. ALSO DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ANY WATER COVERED ROADS ACROSS THE AREA. MOTORIST SHOULD ALSO PLAN AHEAD THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH COLDER AIR ARRIVING THIS EVENING. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET TO THE LOWER 20S BY LATE EVENING. THIS WILL MAKE ROADS ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN REGION VERY SLICK AND DANGEROUS BY LATE EVENING. IF YOU NEED TO GO OUT... THIS AFTERNOON IS THE BEST TIME AS ROAD CONDITIONS WILL BEGIN TO DETERIATE BY EARLY EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WAIDLE:Y
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 1:50 PM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes before
KYZ069-086>088-106-108>118-120-072145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 150 PM EST FRI JAN 7 1994 ...RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW LATE THIS AFTERNOON... AT 130 PM...LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY WITH PATCHY AREAS OF MODERATE RAIN. MANY CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY WERE RECEDING...WITH A FEW STILL AT OR NEAR BANKFULL. AS COLDER AIR PUSHES ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON...THE RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW. MOTORIST THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION ACROSS AREA ROADWAYS DUE TO STANDING OR PONDING OF WATER AND LATER AS THE COLDER AIR ARRIVES MANY WET ROADS WILL DEVELOP SLICK SPOTS. ALSO DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ANY WATER COVERED ROADS ACROSS THE AREA. MOTORIST SHOULD ALSO PLAN AHEAD THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH COLDER AIR ARRIVING THIS EVENING. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET TO THE LOWER 20S BY LATE EVENING. THIS WILL MAKE ROADS ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN REGION VERY SLICK AND DANGEROUS BY LATE EVENING. IF YOU NEED TO GO OUT... THIS AFTERNOON IS THE BEST TIME AS ROAD CONDITIONS WILL BEGIN TO DETERIATE BY EARLY EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. WAIDLEY...CORRECTED TO CHANGE RECEIVING TO RECEDING 1ST PARA
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 1:51 PM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
KYZ069-086>088-106-108>118-120-072145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 150 PM EST FRI JAN 7 1994 ...RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW LATE THIS AFTERNOON... AT 130 PM...LIGHT RAIN CONTINUED ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY WITH PATCHY AREAS OF MODERATE RAIN. MANY CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY WERE RECEDING...WITH A FEW STILL AT OR NEAR BANKFULL. AS COLDER AIR PUSHES ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON...THE RAIN WILL CHANGE TO SNOW. MOTORIST THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD EXERCISE CAUTION ACROSS AREA ROADWAYS DUE TO STANDING OR PONDING OF WATER AND LATER AS THE COLDER AIR ARRIVES MANY WET ROADS WILL DEVELOP SLICK SPOTS. ALSO DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS ANY WATER COVERED ROADS ACROSS THE AREA. MOTORIST SHOULD ALSO PLAN AHEAD THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH COLDER AIR ARRIVING THIS EVENING. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL QUICKLY AFTER SUNSET TO THE LOWER 20S BY LATE EVENING. THIS WILL MAKE ROADS ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN REGION VERY SLICK AND DANGEROUS BY LATE EVENING. IF YOU NEED TO GO OUT... THIS AFTERNOON IS THE BEST TIME AS ROAD CONDITIONS WILL BEGIN TO DETERIATE BY EARLY EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER I@NFORMATION. WAIDLEY...CORRECTED TO CHANGE RECEIVING TO RECEDING 1ST PARA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 7:57 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Cabell | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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.