Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 28, 1994, 11:43 PM EST for Mingo County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1994, 11:43 PM EST (04:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 1994, 2:15 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mingo County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 123 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 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 290443 FFWBKW WVC059-290715- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BECKLEY WV 1143 PM EST MON MAR 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BECKLEY WV HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...MINGO COUNTY U.S. 52 AT MAHER WAS UNDERWATER AND DEEP ENOUGH TO BLOCK TRAFFIC. MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE RUNNING HIGH IN MINGO COUNTY. LIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND SOME ADDITIONAL FLOODING MAY OCCUR. 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. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. END/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, Mar 28, 7:05 PM EST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
WVZ006-007-005-KYZ103-102-104-101-107-105-100-119-OHZ081-086-083-
087-085-082-088-290500-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV
701 PM EST MON MAR 28 1994
...SMALL STREAM AND CREEK WATER LEVELS ARE RUNNING HIGH IN THE TRI
STATE...
1 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE WEEKEND RESULTED IN STREAMS AND CREEKS TO
RISE IN WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA, SOUTHCENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHEASTERN
KENTUCKY. THE RAIN, PLUS SNOWMELT IN THE UPPER REACHES OF THE BASIN,
WILL ALSO CAUSE THE OHIO RIVER TO RISE TO NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE FLOOD
STAGE AT MANY LOCATIONS THROUGH THURSDAY.
THIS WILL CREATE THE POSSIBILITY OF MINOR OVERFLOW OF STREAMS AND CREEKS
ACROSS THE AREA, ESPECIALLY NEAR POINTS WHERE THEY EMPTY INTO THE OHIO
RIVER. PEOPLE WHO LIVE ALONG THESE STREAMS, OR TRAVEL THE ROADS ALONG
SIDE THEM, SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RISING WATERS. DO NOT CROSS STANDING
WATER ACROSS ROADWAYS SINCE THE DEPTH CANNOT BE EASILY DETERMINED.
FOR INTEREST ALONG THE OHIO RIVER, HERE ARE THE LATEST READINGS AND
CREST FORECASTS...
TUE WED THU ....CREST....
FORECAST POINT....FS OBSV MAR 29 MAR 30 MAR 31 STAGE DA/TIME
GALLIPOLIS DAM 50 38.5 44.1 47.9 48.4 48.5 31/ 100
PT PLEASANT 40 38.0 39.9 43.6 44.3 44.5 31/ 100
HUNTINGTON, W.V. 50 39.5 46.1 49.3 49.8 49.8 31/ 100
ASHLAND, KY 52 42.8 50.1 53.5 54.5 54.5 31/ 700
GREENUP DAM, KY 54 43.4 49.4 53.3 54.9 55.0 31/1300
PORTSMOUTH, OH. 50 40.6 45.0 48.2 49.9 50.0 31/1900
ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS ON THIS SITUATION WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED.Nearby
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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.