Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Feb 11, 1994, 5:01 AM EST for McDowell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 1994, 5:01 AM EST (10:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 11, 1994, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County McDowell County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 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 KBKW 111002 FFWBKW WVC047-111300- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 501 AM EST FRI FEB 11 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BECKLEY WV HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...MCDOWELL COUNTY PERIODS OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN, OVERNIGHT, HAS CAUSED MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS TO REACH NEAR BANKFULL. MCDOWELL OFFICIALS REPORT THAT WATER LEVELS HAVE RISEN A FOOT IN THE PAST HOUR COUNTYWIDE AND ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUALLY RISE AS MORE MODERATE PRECIPITATION IS HEADED INTO THE REGION. THESE CONDITIONS WILL FORCE SOME OF THE STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE ABOVE BANKFULL, ESPECIALLY IN THE BRADSHAW AREA. A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM... EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPnE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND. END/COBB/ROZANSKI/BURRUS
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, Feb 10, 11:33 PM EST, 5 hours 28 minutes before
WVZ021-022-023-030-031-032-039-040-041-046-047-110530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 1133 PM EST THU FEB 10 1994 ...WINTER STORM WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA... FREEZING RAIN IS CAUSING VERY HAZARDOUS AND DANGEROUS TRAVEL TONIGHT. HIGHWAYS ACROSS A LARGE PART OF NORTH CENTRAL AND THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA ARE ICE COVERED. THE LEWIS COUNTY OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES REPORTS THAT I-79 IS CLOSED FROM AROUND JANE LEW TO WESTON, BECAUSE OF THE ICE. TEMPERATURES ARE RUNNING IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITATION OVER ALL BUT EXTREME NORTHERN AND NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA. IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRAVEL, PLEASE DON'T. ROADS ARE VERY DANGEROUS WITH NUMEROUS WRECKS REPORTED. THE FREEZING RAIN COULD CAUSE POWER OUTAGES AS ICE BUILDS ON TREES AND POWER LINES. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST ON THIS WINTER WEATHER. END GILKERSON NNNN
Special weather statement, Feb 10, 11:33 PM EST, 5 hours 28 minutes before
WVZ021-022-023-030-031-032-039-040-041-046-047-110530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 1133 PM EST THU FEB 10 1994 ...WINTER STORM WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA... ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA... FREEZING RAIN IS CAUSING VERY HAZARDOUS AND DANGEROUS TRAVEL TONIGHT. HIGHWAYS ACROSS A LARGE PART OF NORTH CENTRAL AND THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF WEST VIRGINIA ARE ICE COVERED. THE LEWIS COUNTY OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES REPORTS THAT I-79 IS CLOSED FROM AROUND JANE LEW TO WESTON, BECAUSE OF THE ICE. TEMPERATURES ARE RUNNING IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A LARGE AREA OF PRECIPITATION OVER ALL BUT EXTREME NORTHERN AND NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA. IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRAVEL, PLEASE DON'T. ROADS ARE VERY DANGEROUS WITH NUMEROUS WRECKS REPORTED. THE FREEZING RAIN COULD CAUSE POWER OUTAGES AS ICE BUILDS ON TREES AND POWER LINES. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND COMMERCIAL BROADCAST FOR THE LATEST ON THIS WINTER WEATHER. END GILKERSON NNNN
Special weather statement, Feb 11, 1:45 AM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
KYC100>105-107-119-OHC081>083-085>088-WVC005>007-110500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 145 AM EST FRI FEB 11 1994 ....WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND FRIDAY FOR WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA, WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHCENTRAL OHIO TONIGHT, FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 130AM FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WAS STILL FALLING AT THE HUNTINGTON TRI-STATE AIRPORT. THE LATEST RADAR AND SATELITTE PICTURES SHOWED THE NORTHERN EXTENT OF THIS PRECIPITATION IS THE WEST VIRGINIA/PENNSYLVANIA STATE LINE. FREEZING RAIN STRETCHED AS FAR SOUTH AS SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA BEFORE IT TURNED TO RAIN. THE FREEZING RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTH AND CHANGE TO RAIN AS TEMPERATURES WARM SLOWLY. ICING ACROSS NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY, SOUTHCENTRAL OHIO AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA IS STICKING TO ROADS AND TRAVEL HAS BECOME HAZARDOUS. THE FREEZING RAIN WILL REMAIN INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORINING BEFORE TURNING TO RAIN BY MIDDAY FRIDAY AS THE TEMPERATURE CONTINUES TO RISE TO ABOVE FREEZING BY THAT TIME. MOTORISTS ACROSS THE TRI-STATE ARE ADVISED NOT DRIVE UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY TONIGHT SINCE THE FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE ICING OF ALL ROADS ACROSS THE AREA. REMAIN TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. END/SAS Ju:hJJJ WSCA 6WWUSz #6WWUS 7q4WSUStb *6WWUSv 0XWSUS 06WWUS @76WWUS WTSRuH d318 91112=
Special weather statement, Feb 11, 1:49 AM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
KYC100>105-107-119-OHC081>083-085>088-WVC005>007-110500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 145 AM EST FRI FEB 11 1994 ....WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT TONIGHT AND FRIDAY FOR WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA, WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHCENTRAL OHIO TONIGHT, FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 130AM FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET WAS STILL FALLING AT THE HUNTINGTON TRI-STATE AIRPORT. THE LATEST RADAR AND SATELITTE PICTURES SHOWED THE NORTHERN EXTENT OF THIS PRECIPITATION IS THE WEST VIRGINIA/PENNSYLVANIA STATE LINE. FREEZING RAIN STRETCHED AS FAR SOUTH AS SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA BEFORE IT TURNED TO RAIN. THE FREEZING RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTH AND CHANGE TO RAIN AS TEMPERATURES WARM SLOWLY. ICING ACROSS NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY, SOUTHCENTRAL OHIO AND WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA IS STICKING TO ROADS AND TRAVEL HAS BECOME HAZARDOUS. THE FREEZING RAIN WILL REMAIN INTO EARLY FRIDAY MORINING BEFORE TURNING TO RAIN BY MIDDAY FRIDAY AS THE TEMPERATURE CONTINUES TO RISE TO ABOVE FREEZING BY THAT TIME. MOTORISTS ACROSS THE TRI-STATE ARE ADVISED NOT DRIVE UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY TONIGHT SINCE THE FREEZING RAIN WILL CAUSE ICING OF ALL ROADS ACROSS THE AREA. REMAIN TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. END/SAS
Special weather statement, Feb 11, 2:58 AM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
WVZ024-025-033>037-042>045-111200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 300 AM EST FRI FEB 11 1994 .ICE STORM WARNING TONIGHT FOR MCDOWELL AND WYOMING COUNTIES. .FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT AND FRIDAY FOR MCDOWELL AND WYOMING COUNTIES. .ICE STORM WARNING TONIGHT AND FRIDAY FOR LOGAN AND MINGO COUNTIES AND ALL OF THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS. .WINTER STORM WARNING TONIGHT AND FRIDAY FOR THE GREENBRIER VALLEY AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. RAIN, FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET CONTINUED TO BE WIDESPREAD ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA EARLY FRIDAY MORNING AS A RESULT OF A STRONG STORM SYSTEM CHURNING ALONG THE GULF COAST REGION. THE PRECIPITATION REMAINED LIGHT IN MOST LOCATIONS WITH MAINLY FREEZING RAIN BEING REPORTED IN THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND GREENBRIER VALLEY AND A MIX OF RAIN AND FREEZING RAIN IN THE WESTERN LOWALNDS. TEMPERATURES REMAINED ABOVE FREEZING IN MCDOWELL AND WYOMING COUNTIES WITH OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE COAL FIELD RISING TO NEAR FREEZING. IN THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND GREENBRIER VALLEY TEMPERATURES WERE REPORTED IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S. ALTHOUGH THE PRECIPITATION HAS SHOWN A GRADUAL DECREASE IN INTESITY IT HAS HELPED TO AGRIVATE ALREADY SWOLEN CREEKS ACROSS THE REGION AS WELL AS CAUSED NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES. HEAVY ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE HAVE CAUSED WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES IN WESTERN RALEIGH COUNTY AND IN TAZEWELL COUNTY VIRGINIA WITH OCCASIIONAL OUTAGES IN WYOMING COUNTY. ROADS REMAIN TREACHEROUS AND CONDITIONS WILL ONLY DETERIORATE EARLY THIS MORNING. TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED EXCEPT IN CASES OF EXTREME EMERGENCY. HEAVIER RAIN IS EXPECTED TO ONCE AGAIN INVADE THE REGION LATER THIS MORNING AND THIS COUPLED WITH RISING TEMPERATUERS WILL ADD TO THE POTENTIOAN FLOOD PROBLEMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EVENT. END/COBB
Special weather statement, Feb 11, 3:00 AM EST, 2 hours 1 minute before
WVZ024-025-033>037-042>045-111200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 300 AM EST FRI FEB 11 1994 .ICE STORM WARNING TONIGHT FOR MCDOWELL AND WYOMING COUNTIES. .FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT AND FRIDAY FOR MCDOWELL AND WYOMING COUNTIES. .ICE STORM WARNING TONIGHT AND FRIDAY FOR LOGAN AND MINGO COUNTIES AND ALL OF THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS. .WINTER STORM WARNING TONIGHT AND FRIDAY FOR THE GREENBRIER VALLEY AND CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. RAIN, FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET CONTINUED TO BE WIDESPREAD ACROSS SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA EARLY FRIDAY MORNING AS A RESULT OF A STRONG STORM SYSTEM CHURNING ALONG THE GULF COAST REGION. THE PRECIPITATION REMAINED LIGHT IN MOST LOCATIONS WITH MAINLY FREEZING RAIN BEING REPORTED IN THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND GREENBRIER VALLEY AND A MIX OF RAIN AND FREEZING RAIN IN THE WESTERN LOWALNDS. TEMPERATURES REMAINED ABOVE FREEZING IN MCDOWELL AND WYOMING COUNTIES WITH OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE COAL FIELD RISING TO NEAR FREEZING. IN THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND GREENBRIER VALLEY TEMPERATURES WERE REPORTED IN THE MID TO UPPER 20S. ALTHOUGH THE PRECIPITATION HAS SHOWN A GRADUAL DECREASE IN INTESITY IT HAS HELPED TO AGRIVATE ALREADY SWOLEN CREEKS ACROSS THE REGION AS WELL AS CAUSED NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES. HEAVY ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE HAVE CAUSED WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES IN WESTERN RALEIGH COUNTY AND IN TAZEWELL COUNTY VIRGINIA WITH OCCASIIONAL OUTAGES IN WYOMING COUNTY. ROADS REMAIN TREACHEROUS AND CONDITIONS WILL ONLY DETERIORATE EARLY THIS MORNING. TRAVEL SHOULD BE AVOIDED EXCEPT IN CASES OF EXTREME EMERGENCY. HEAVIER RAIN IS EXPECTED TO ONCE AGAIN INVADE THE REGION LATER THIS MORNING AND THIS COUPLED WITH RISING TEMPERATUERS WILL ADD TO THE POTENTIOAN FLOOD PROBLEMS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EVENT. END/COBB fj///// C Y6WWUSR *q[#V WUUS$ ,N x|'Qx 6WWUS* xu 6WWUS hm4WTIN 21000 40650 2 0000406 306// 41006qf6WWUS OPSI GULF H6WWUS XVQ6WWUS0 xr6WWUSf `COLDNT 3N81W MOV ESE AT T COS A @"6WWUS G>6WWUSF LD/WX...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 4:11 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 6 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.