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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV

May 14, 19954 counties in Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1995, 6:24 AM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 6:24 AM EDT (10:24 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 12:30 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Vinton County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 87 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 384 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 141022
FFWCRW
OHC009-053-079-105-163-141630-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
624 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...ATHENS COUNTY...GALLIA COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY
   ...MEIGS COUNTY...VINTON COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THAT MOVED ACROSS SOUTHEAST OHIO EARLIER THIS
MORNING DUMPED LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN OVER THE AREA. THIS COMBINED WITH
THE CONTINUED RAINFALL OVER THE AREA HAS PUSHED MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS
TO BANKFUL AND OVER...CAUSING FLASH FLOODING IN MANY AREAS OF SOUTHEAST
OHIO.
 
SOME OF THE EFFECTED ROADWAYS INCLUDE...IN ATHENS COUNTY FLOODING WAS
REPORTED IN TRIMBLE TOWNSHIP WHERE A CAR WAS FLOODED...IN GALLIA COUNTY
NEAR THE CITY OF VINTON WATER WAS REPORTING COVERING ROUTE 163...WILL
ROAD AND ALSO MCCLASKY ROAD...IN JACKSON COUNTY OHIO HIGH WATER WAS REPO
EIN THE CITY OF JACKSON WHILE THE MEIGS COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED MOST OF
THE MAJOR ROADS AS BEING FLOODED.
 
 
 
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 SPOTS 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.
 
 
 
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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, May 14, 1:41 AM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-KYZ101-102-141200-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
140 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM FOR SOUTHEASTERN OHIO AND
    PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY...

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED
A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 800 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES:

IN OHIO:

        ATHENS   GALLIA   JACKSON   LAWRENCE   MEIGS
        MONROE   PERRY    VINTON    WASHINGTON

IN KENTUCKY:

        CARTER AND GREENUP

A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS COVERED FAR WESTERN KENTUCKY...
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...MUCH OF INDIANA AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN OHIO
EARLY THIS MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING EASTWARD
ACROSS SOUTHERN OHIO AND EXTREME NORTHERN KENTUCKY.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PUSH INTO PORTIONS OF THIS
AREA BEFORE 200 AM. CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO A
POSSIBILITY.

IF THREATENING CONDITIONS DEVELOP OR A WARNING IS ISSUED TAKE COVER
IN THE INTERIOR PORTION OF A HOUSE. STAY AWAY FROM WIzNDOWS AS THE
STORM MOVES THROUGH YOUR AREA.

END/ZINN

NG ACROSS UN

         *** THIS SPACE FOR ADDITONAL INFORMATION ***

END/LAST NAME

Special weather statement, May 14, 5:03 AM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

WVZ007>012-016>020-029>032-039-040-141000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
500 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995

...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THIS MORNING...

A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO PROGRESS
NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF WEST
VIRGINIA. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE STRONG AND MAY CONTAIN SMALL
HAIL, BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS.

MOST OF THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY IS STILL NORTH AND WEST OF WEST
VIRGINIA IN SOUTHEAST OHIO. HOWEVER...STAY ALERT FOR THREATENING
WEATHER AS THIS ACTIVITY CONTINUES TO ADVANCE INTO WEST VIRGINIA
DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS.

END/ROZANSKI

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 3:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Vinton	29 min
May 14, 3:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	29 min
May 14, 3:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Vinton	47 min
May 14, 4:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Meigs	46 min
May 14, 6:24 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson	6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1995 Every flash flood warning in 1995

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.