Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 3, 1995, 3:23 PM EDT for Tyler County, West Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1995, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1995, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tyler County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 031919 RRA FFWCRW WVC095-040000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING... CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 323 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...TYLER COUNTY AT 3 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...MOVING NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH TYLER COUNTY...WITH MORE STORMS DEVELOPING BACK ACROSS WOOD COUNTY. DOPPLER RADAR WAS ALSO SHOWING RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 1.5 TO 2.0 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST HOUR. THIS COMBINED WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CAUSE STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE RAPIDLY TO NEAR AND OVER BANKFULL. 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.
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, Jun 3, 9:40 AM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
WVZ020-030>032-038>040-046-047-031500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 940 AM EDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 935 AM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WEST UNION TO NEAR WESTON TO SOUTHWEST OF WEBSTER SPRINGS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL REACH A LINE THAT FROM MORGANTOWN TO GRAFTON TO PHILIPPI TO HUTTONSVILLE TO CASE IN POCAHONTAS COUNTY BY 1030 AM. THESE STORMS WILL BRING BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST. THESE STORMS KNOCKED DOWN SOME SMALL TREE LIMBS AND CAUSED POWER OUTAGES IN VIENNA IN WOOD COUNTY AS THE MOVED THROUGH. SOME PONDING OF WATER IS LIKELY IN LOW LYING AREAS DURING AND SHORTLY AFTER THE HEAVY RAIN. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO BE ALERT FOR GREATLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN THE HEAVY RAIN. SITES/ZINN
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 9:42 AM EDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before
WVZ020-030>032-038>040-046-047-031500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 940 AM EDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 935 AM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WEST UNION TO NEAR WESTON TO SOUTHWEST OF WEBSTER SPRINGS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL REACH A LINE THAT FROM MORGANTOWN TO GRAFTON TO PHILIPPI TO HUTTONSVILLE TO CASE IN POCAHONTAS COUNTY BY 1030 AM. THESE STORMS WILL BRING BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST. THESE STORMS KNOCKED DOWN SOME SMALL TREE LIMBS AND CAUSED POWER OUTAGES IN VIENNA IN WOOD COUNTY AS THE MOVED THROUGH. SOME PONDING OF WATER IS LIKELY IN LOW LYING AREAS DURING AND SHORTLY AFTER THE HEAVY RAIN. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO BE ALERT FOR GREATLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN THE HEAVY RAIN. SITES/ZINN
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 11:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
WVZ008-013>016-018-024>027-034>036-031700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1150 AM EDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 1145 AM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM MASON COUNTY THROUGH PUTNAM COUNTY AND EXTREME WESTERN KANAWHA COUNTY ON THROUGH NORTHERN LOGAN AND CENTRAL MINGO COUNTIES. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE LINE WILL PASS THROUGH THE CITIES OF RIPLEY..SPENCER...ST ALBANS...CHARLESTON...MADISON..LOGAN AND WILLIAMSON DURING THE NEXT HOUR. LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN MAY BE OBSERVED ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE DURATION OF THE RAIN WILL GENERALLY BE LESS THAN ONE HALF OF AN HOUR. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NOT A SOLID LINE...SO NOT ALL LOCATIONS WILL SEE HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. SOME STREAMS MAY REACH NEAR BANKFULL FOR A SHORT PERIOD AND CONSIDERABLE PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS IS EXPECTED. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO BE ALERT FOR GREATLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING THE HEAVY RAIN. END/ZINN
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 11:55 AM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before
WVZ008-013>016-018-024>027-034>036-031700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1150 AM EDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 1145 AM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM MASON COUNTY THROUGH PUTNAM COUNTY AND EXTREME WESTERN KANAWHA COUNTY ON THROUGH NORTHERN LOGAN AND CENTRAL MINGO COUNTIES. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE LINE WILL PASS THROUGH THE CITIES OF RIPLEY..SPENCER...ST ALBANS...CHARLESTON...MADISON..LOGAN AND WILLIAMSON DURING THE NEXT HOUR. LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH OF RAIN MAY BE OBSERVED ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE DURATION OF THE RAIN WILL GENERALLY BE LESS THAN ONE HALF OF AN HOUR. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NOT A SOLID LINE...SO NOT ALL LOCATIONS WILL SEE HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. SOME STREAMS MAY REACH NEAR BANKFULL FOR A SHORT PERIOD AND CONSIDERABLE PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS IS EXPECTED. MOTORISxTS ARE ADVISED TO BE ALERT FOR GREATLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING THE HEAVY RAIN. END/ZINN
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
WVZ009>011-017-019-020-OHZ075-076-085-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 140 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 130 PM EDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM MEIGS AND ATHENS COUNTIES IN OHIO EAST AND NORTHEAST THROUGH WASHINGTON COUNTY OHIO. OTHER STORMS WERE OVER PORTIONS OF WOOD...PLEASANTS..TYLER...NORTHERN RITCHIE AND NORTHERN DODDRIDGE COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EASTNORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING OVER AREAS THAT RECEIVED LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN EARLIER THIS MORNING....ESPECIALLY IN WASHINGTON COUNTY OHIO AND PLEASANTS...WOOD AND TYLER COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA. SMALL STREAMS MAY RISE TO NEAR BANKFULL WITH PONDING OF WATER IN LOW AREAS LIKELY. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO BE ALERT FOR GREATLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN THE HEAVY RAIN AND FOR STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADWAYS. END/ZINN
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
WVZ009>011-017-019-020-OHZ075-076-085-032000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 140 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1995 AT 130 PM EDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM MEIGS AND ATHENS COUNTIES IN OHIO EAST AND NORTHEAST THROUGH WASHINGTON COUNTY OHIO. OTHER STORMS WERE OVER PORTIONS OF WOOD...PLEASANTS..TYLER...NORTHERN RITCHIE AND NORTHERN DODDRIDGE COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EASTNORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING OVER AREAS THAT RECEIVED LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN EARLIER THIS MORNING....ESPECIALLY IN WASHINGTON COUNTY OHIO AND PLEASANTS...WOOD AND TYLER COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA. SMALL STREAMS MAY RISE TO NEAR BANKFULL WITH PONDING OF WATER IN LOW AREAS LIKELY. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO BE ALERT FOR GREATLNY REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN THE HEAVY RAIN AND FOR STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS ROADWAYS. END/ZINN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Wood | 5 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wirt, Wood | 4 hr |
| Jun 3, 7:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wirt, Wood | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1995Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.