Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jan 7, 1994, 11:18 AM EST for Tyler County, West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 1994, 11:18 AM EST (16:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 1994, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tyler County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 87 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 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 KCRW 071617 FFWCRW WVC095-072215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1118 AM EST FRI JAN 7 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...TYLER COUNTY OVERNIGHT RAINFALL, SNOWMELT AND ICE JAMS ALONG MIDDLE ISLAND CREEK, INDIAN CREEK, ELK FORK AND MCELROY CREEK WERE CAUSING RAPID WATER RISES IN PARTS OF THE COUNTY. WATER HAS RISEN TO NEAR SOME ROADWAYS AND COULD PUT SOME ROADS UNDER WATER THIS AFTERNOON, ESPECIALLY ROUTES 18 AND 23. ANYONE LIVING OR TRAVELING ALONG WATERWAYS IN TYLER COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPID WATER RISES AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPzOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. REYNOLDS
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, 6:20 AM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
WVZ005-006-KYZ101-103-105-OHZ087-071300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 620 AM EST FRI JAN 7 1994 ....LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES IN THE TRI STATE... AT 615 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT AND MODERATE RAIN THROUGHOUT THE TRI STATE. RAINFALL TOTALS OVERNIGHT THROUGHOUT THE TRI STATE HAVE RANGED FROM ONE HALF TO ONE INCH. LIGHT RAIN...WITH OCCASIONAL BURSTS OF MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE EARLY THIS MORNING. WITH THE RECENT HEAVY SNOWFALL AN ADDITIONAL RUNOFF OF WATER WILL OCCUR CREATING PONDING OF WATER ON MANY ROADWAYS RESULTING IN SLIPPERY DRIVING CONDITIONS. IN ADDITION WATER LEVELS IN STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL RISE. CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 6:22 AM EST, 4 hours 56 minutes before
WVZ005-006-KYZ101-103-105-OHZ087-071300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 620 AM EST FRI JAN 7 1994 ....LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN CONTINUES IN THE TRI STATE... AT 615 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT AND MODERATE RAIN THROUGHOUT THE TRI STATE. RAINFALL TOTALS OVERNIGHT THROUGHOUT THE TRI STATE HAVE RANGED FROM ONE HALF TO ONE INCH. LIGHT RAIN...WITH OCCASIONAL BURSTS OF MODERATE RAIN WILL CONTINUE EARLY THIS MORNING. WITH THE RECENT HEAVY SNOWFALL AN ADDITIONAL RUNOFF OF WATER WILL OCCUR CREATING PONDING OF WATER ON MANY ROADWAYS RESULTING IN SLIPPERY DRIVING CONDITIONS. IN ADDITION WATER LEVELS IN STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL RISE.^ CONTINUE TO LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/CICCONE
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 7:38 AM EST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
WVZ005>047-071700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 735 AM EST FRI JAN 7 1993 ...RAIN TODAY, FOLLOWED BY BIG FREEZE TONIGHT... A STORM CENTERED OVER EASTERN KENTUCKY THIS MORNING WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA TODAY AND INTO EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TONIGHT. THE STORM HAD SPREAD RAIN ACROSS MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING. RAINFALL BY 700 AM THIS MORNING RANGED FROM JUST A TRACE IN SOUTHEASTERN AREAS UP TO ONE HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN WESTERN AND NORTHER AREAS. HUNTINGTON HAS HAD .70 INCHES, CLARKSBURG 0.64 INCHES, CHARLESTON 0.48 INCHES, ROWLESBURG 0.61 INCHES, AND WESTON 0.78 INCHES. SO FAR, MOST OF THE RAIN HAS SOAKED INTO THE HEAVY SNOW COVER. HOWEVER IN WESTERN COUNTIES THAT RECEIVED THE SMALLEST AMOUNT OF SNOW IN THE STORM EARLIER THIS WEEK, MUCH OF THE SNOW IS MELTING. RUNOFF FROM THIS SNOWMELT AND RAINFALL MAY BRING SMALL STREAMS TO NEAR BANKFULL DURING THE DAY ACROSS THE WESTERN LOWLANDS. POOR DRAINAGE MAY BE A MAJOR PROBLEM TODAY RESULTING IN PONDING OF WATER DUE TO CLOGGED COLVERTS AND PILES OF ICE AND SNOW. DUE TO THE LARGE AMOUNTS OF SNOW AND ICE STILL PILED ALONG STREETS AND ROIADWAYS, THE WATER MAY NOT RUN OFF AS YOU WOULD EXPECT. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO BE ALERT FOR STANDING WATER AND WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADWAYS. MUCH COLDER AIR WILL POUR INTO THE STATE TONIGHT CHANGING THE RAIN TO LIGHT SNOW. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP WELL BELOW FREEZING TONIGHT AND THE LIGHT SNOW COMBINED WITH FREEZING RUNOFF WATER WILL MAKE FOR HAZARDOUS DRIVING IN MANY AREAS. ZINN
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 9:46 AM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
WVZ005>047-072000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 945 AM EST FRI JAN 7 1993 MINOR SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS BEING REPORTED ACROSS WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING. A COMBINATION OF RAIN, SNOWMELT, AND WARM MOIST AIR HAS CAUSED RAPID RISES IN SMALL STREAMS. MANY REPORTS OF LOW-LYING ROADS BEING UP TO 2 TO 3 FEET UNDER WATER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE WESTERN SLOPES OF WEST VIRGINIA FROM THE PARKERSBURG WV AREA ON SOUTH. ABOUT AN INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA LATE YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT. RAIN IS DECREASING IN INTENSITY ACROSS THE AREA. COOLER AIR WILL SWEEP INTO THE AREA BETWEEN 1PM AND 4PM THIS AFTERNOON. THE COOLER AIR WILL STOP THE RAPID MELT OF SNOW AND ALLOW THE SNOW TO HOLD RAIN THAT HAS FALLEN. WATER PROBLEMS WILL END AT THAT TIME. IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA AND AREAS NORTH OF PARKERSBURG WV COOLER AIR HAS ALLOWED THE DEEPER SNOW COVER TO ABSORB ALMOST ALL OF THE RAINFALL. NO FLOODING OF ANY SORT IS ANTICIPATED UP THERE. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADS. FLOWING WATER OFTEN UNDERMINES ROADS, AND MOTORISTS COULD BE SWEPT AWAY IF THAT HAPPENS. EOM
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 10:27 AM EST, 51 minutes before
WVZ024-025-033>037-042>045-072100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 1027 AM EST FRI JAN 7 1994 ...COLDER AIR WILL INVADE THE MOUNTAIN STATE BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON... A COLD FRONT ALONG THE OHIO RIVER THAT WILL MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN STATE THIS AFTERNOON WILL USHER IN ANOTHER ROUND OF WINTERY WEATHER FROM LATE THIS EVENING INTO SATURDAY. OVERNIGHT ACCUMULATIONS ARE ONLY EXPECTED TO BE FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES...HOWEVER THE MAIN PROBLEMS TONIGHT WILL BE WATER ON THE ROADS FROM TODAYS RAINFALL AND SNOWMELT BECOMING ICY. THIS COMBINED WITH SNOW ACCCUMULATING ON THE ICE WILL CAUSE SOME ROADWAYS TO BE EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. DENSE FOG WILL DEVELOP IN SOME AREAS ADDING TO THE DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA DUE TO THE SNOWMELT AND RAIN. THE FLOODING WILL MAINLY BE IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE OR WHERE URBAN FLOODING OCCASIONALLY OCCURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/MONEYPENNY
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 10:27 AM EST, 51 minutes before
WVZ024-025-033>037-042>045-072100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 1027 AM EST FRI JAN 7 1994 ...COLDER AIR WILL INVADE THE MOUNTAIN STATE BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON... A COLD FRONT ALONG THE OHIO RIVER THAT WILL MOVE EASTWARD THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN STATE THIS AFTERNOON WILL USHER IN ANOTHER ROUND OF WINTERY WEATHER FROM LATE THIS EVENING INTO SATURDAY. OVERNIGHT ACCUMULATIONS ARE ONLY EXPECTED TO BE FROM 1 TO 3 INCHES...HOWEVER THE MAIN PROBLEMS TONIGHT WILL BE WATER ON THE ROADS FROM TODAYS RAINFALL AND SNOWMELT BECOMING ICY. THIS COMBINED WITH SNOW ACCCUMULATING ON THE ICE WILL CAUSE SOME ROADWAYS TO BE EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. DENSE FOG WILL DEVELOP IN SOME AREAS ADDING TO THE DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA DUE TO THE SNOWMELT AND RAIN. THE FLOODING WILL MAINLY BE IN AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE OR WHERE URBAN FLOODING OCCASIONALLY OCCURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. END/MONEYPENNY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 11:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 1:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Lewis, Upshur | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 1:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Randolph, Tucker | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 1:36 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 4 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.