Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 1995, 7:44 PM EDT for Wirt County, West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1995, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wirt County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 182345 FFWCRW KYC019-043-089-OHC053-079-105-163-WVC105-035-053-190445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 744 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 LOCATIONS... IN EAST KENTUCKY ...BOYD COUNTY...CARTER COUNTY...GREENUP COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...GALLIA COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY...MEIGS COUNTY ...VINTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...WIRT COUNTY IN WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA ...JACKSON COUNTY...MASON COUNTY HIGH WATER PROBLEMS CONTINUE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE WARNED COUNTIES THIS EVENING...WITH SOME VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS LIKELY. THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL ONLY AGGRAVATE ONGOING FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER NDEPTH 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. 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 54 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, 9:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne | 66 min |
| May 18, 9:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Wood | 6 hr |
| 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 |
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.