Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1995, 7:05 PM EDT for Athens County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1995, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Athens County, OH
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 182306 FFWCRW OHC009-WVC095-190500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 705 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...ATHENS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...TYLER COUNTY IN TYLER COUNTY...MIDDLE ISLAND CREEK CONTINUES TO RISE AND WATER FROM MCELROY CREEK HAS CLOSED ROUTE 23. WATERS WILL CONTINUE RISING SOME THIS EVENING...AND MORE RAIN IS POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT. IN ATHENS COUNTY...SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE RUNNING VERY HIGH. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL BE MOVING INTO THE COUNTY BETWEEN 715 AND 800 PM...WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN DUE LATER THIS EVENING. MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING 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. DO NOT DRIVE AROUND POLICE BARRICADES. REYNOLDS
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, 5:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
WVZ007-009-017-018-029-OHZ066-067-076-083>085-KYZ101-102-104-202300- SPECIAL WEATHER AND RIVER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 545 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 ...WATER LEVELS RUNNING HIGH ON THE LITTLE SANDY IN KENTUCKY... AND ON THE HOCKING AND MUSKINGUM RIVERS IN OHIO.... ...HIGH WATER LEVELS EXPECTED ON THE LITTLE KANAWHA RIVER IN WEST VIRGINIA... RAINFALL THAT FELL ACROSS THE AREA EARLIER TODAY....EXPECTED RAINFALL BETWEEN 3/4 TO 1.50 INCHES THIS EVENING...AND THE ALREADY SATURATED GROUND WILL ALLOW MOST OF THE WATER TO RUNOFF INTO THE STREAMS AND INTO THE LITTLE SANDY...HOCKING...MUSKINGUM...AND LITTLE KANAWHA RIVERS. WATER LEVELS ON THE LITTLE SANDY AT GRAYSON WERE RUNNING NEAR BANKFULL AT THIS TIME. THE LITTLE SANDY AT GRAYSON IS EXPECTED TO CREST AROUND THE FLOOD STAGE OF 21 FEET DURING THE MORNING HOURS ON FRIDAY. WATER LEVELS ON THE HOCKING RIVER AT ATHENS IS EXPECTED TO REACH NEAR THE FLOOD STAGE OF 20 FEET ON SATURDAY EVENING. WATER LEVELS ON THE MUSKINGUM RIVER ARE EXPECTED TO CREST FROM 3/4 TO NEAR BANKFULL AT MCCONNELLSVILLE. WATER LEVELS ON THE LITTLE KANAWHA AT GLENVILLE ARE EXPECTED TO REACH 3/4 TO NEAR BANKFULL AROUND NOON ON FRIDAY. GRANTSVILLE AND ELIZABETH ARE ONLY EXPECTED TO REACH 3/4 BANKFULL. BACKWATER AFFECTS ON STREAMS AND CREEKS THAT FEED INTO THESE RIVERS MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. PERSONS LIVING ALONG THE LITTLE SANDY...HOCKING...MUSKINGUM... AND LITTLE KANAWHA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR WATER LEVELS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAYS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. END/SIKORA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 9:25 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gallia, Meigs | 6 hr |
| May 18, 3:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Meigs | 5 hr |
| May 18, 3:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gallia | 5 hr |
| May 18, 4:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| May 18, 4:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Vinton | 5 hr |
| May 18, 7:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gallia, Meigs, Vinton | 5 hr |
| May 18, 7:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 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.