Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 31, 1994, 6:54 PM EDT for Harrison County, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 1994, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1994, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1201 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 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 KEKN 312254 RRA FFWEKN WVC033-041-010100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKINS WV 654 PM EDT WED AUG 31 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ELKINS HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH WEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHERN HARRISON COUNTY...WESTERN LEWIS COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND RADIO REPORTING REPORTING RAIN GAGES SHOW MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN FALLING AT A RATE OF FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES OVER SOUTHERN HARRISON AND OVER WESTERN LEWIS COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA. RAINFALL OF THIS AMOUNT IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, OVER AREAS SATURATED FROM THE RAINS OF EARLIER TODAY, WILL CAUSE SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE QUICKLY, AND WILL EXCEED STORM DRAINAGE CAPABILITIES IN URBAN AREAS. LOW LYING AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE WILL BECOME INNUNDATED QUICKLY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH 6MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. END/HILL NNNN
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, Aug 31, 5:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
WVZ005>007-OHZ081>083-085>088-KYZ100>105-107-119-312205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 505 PM EDT WED AUG 31 1994 ....THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE TRI STATE REGION.... AT 500 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM EAST OF POMEROY IN MEIGS COUNTY OHIO TO THE SOUTHEAST TO PORTSMOUTH IN SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO AND INTO LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE IN SOUTHERN MEIGS COUNTY OHIO. ANOTHER LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER FROM CROWN CITY IN GALLIA COUNTY OHIO SOUTHWEST TO HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA AND INTO NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY THORUGH GRAYSON IN CARTER COUNTY KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR AND MAY CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, VERY HEAVY RAIN, AND WINDS GUSTING TO 40 MILES PER HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. EBERT
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 5:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
WVZ005>007-OHZ081>083-085>088-KYZ100>105-107-119-312205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 505 PM EDT WED AUG 31 1994 ....THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE TRI STATE REGION.... AT 500 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR WAS INDICATING A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM EAST OF POMEROY IN MEIGS COUNTY OHIO TO THE SOUTHEAST TO PORTSMOUTH IN SCIOTO COUNTY OHIO AND INTO LEWIS COUNTY KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE IN SOUTHERN MEIGS COUNTY OHIO. ANOTHER LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG THE OHIO RIVER FROM CROWN CITY IN GALLIA COUNTY OHIO SOUTHWEST TO HUNTINGTON WEST VIRGINIA AND INTO NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY THORUGH GRAYSON IN CARTER COUNTY KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES PER HOUR AND MAY CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING, VERY HEAVY RAIN, AND WINDS GUSTING TO 40 MILES PER HOUR. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. EBERT
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 5:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
WVZ009-016-017-018-019-010000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 523 PM EDT WED AUG 31 1994 SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WOOD, WIRT, RITCHIE, ROANE AND CALHOUN COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL AROUND 800 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN WITH LOCALLY HEAVY AMOUNTS OF AROUND 2 INCHES. AS A RESULT, BRIEF PROBLEMS CAN BE EXPECTED IN COMMUNITIES AS SEWER SYSTEMS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE QUICK RAINFALL AMOUNTS. SOME QUICK RISES CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED ON STREAMS IN THESE COUNTIES WITH SOME NEAR BANKFULL LEVELS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT TRY TO GO THROUGH WATER OVER ROADWAYS. TURN BACK OR FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES UNTIL THE WATER RECEEDS. END/REZEK
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 5:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
WVZ009-016-017-018-019-010000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 523 PM EDT WED AUG 31 1994 SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WOOD, WIRT, RITCHIE, ROANE AND CALHOUN COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA UNTIL AROUND 800 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN WITH LOCALLY HEAVY AMOUNTS OF AROUND 2 INCHES. AS A RESULT, BRIEF PROBLEMS CAN BE EXPECTED IN COMMUNITIES AS SEWER SYSTEMS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE QUICK RAINFALL AMOUNTS. SOME QUICK RISES CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED ON STREAMS IN THESE COUNTIES WITH SOME NEAR BANKFULL LEVELS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT TRY TO GO THROUGH WATER OVER ROADWAYS. TURN BACK OR FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES UNTIL THE WATER RECEEDS. END/REZEK
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.