Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1995, 9:48 AM EDT for Jackson County, Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 9:48 AM EDT (13:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, WV, Wood County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 550 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 971 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 181349 FFWCRW WVC013-107-035-043-053-079-181945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 948 AM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...CALHOUN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...WOOD COUNTY IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...JACKSON COUNTY...LINCOLN COUNTY...MASON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...PUTNAM COUNTY RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN MOVING OVER THESE COUNTIES. STREAMS AND SMALL RIVERS ARE NEAR BANKFULL. THE ADDITIONAL RAINS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. 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. WATCH OUT FOR MUD SLIDES.
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 18, 6:36 AM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
OHZ083-084-087-KYZ101>104-181300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 626 AM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST OHIO UNTIL NOON... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA..KENTUCKY AND OHIO... THE TORNADO WATCH POSTED THIS MORNING WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON. THE INITIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STRONG THUNDERSXTORMS WILL BE FURTHER WEST IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO. THE DEVELOPMENT OF POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS NOT EXPECTED IN THE EASTERN PORTIONS OF OHIO OR KENTUCKY UNTIL AFTER 900 AM. END AAR
Special weather statement, May 18, 9:08 AM EDT, 40 minutes before
WVZ005>047-VAZ001>017-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-KYZ101>105-107- 119-181905- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 855 AM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST OHIO UNTIL NOON...WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA UNTIL 3 PM... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA..KENTUCKY AND OHIO... THE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS COULD POSSIBLY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL WERE MOVING ACROSS EASTERN KENTUCKY INTO NORTHERN VIRGINIA AT THIS TIME. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE VERY STRONG STORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIAT.ELY. END/ELW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 9:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne | 66 min |
| May 18, 9:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Mason, Putnam | 6 hr |
| May 18, 9:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 6 hr |
| May 18, 9:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Ritchie | 6 hr |
| May 18, 9:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell | 6 hr |
| May 18, 9:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Roane, Wirt | 6 hr |
| May 18, 10:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Putnam | 52 min |
| May 18, 10:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 52 min |
| May 18, 10:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Fayette, Nicholas | 48 min |
| May 18, 10:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Webster | 49 min |
| May 18, 11:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 42 min |
| May 18, 11:14 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 4 hr |
| May 18, 12:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lewis | 4 hr |
| May 18, 3:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Lewis | 5 hr |
| May 18, 3:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Wirt | 5 hr |
| May 18, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Mingo, Wayne | 31 min |
| May 18, 7:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 6 hr |
| May 18, 7:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 5 hr |
| May 18, 7:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wirt | 5 hr |
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.