Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1995, 7:16 PM EDT for Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1995, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1995, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Upshur County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 609 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 272315 FFWCRW WVC097-280215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 716 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...UPSHUR COUNTY HEAVY RAINS OVER THE PAST 2 HOURS HAVE DUMPED OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVER CENTRAL UPSHUR COUNTY. MORE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP SOUTH OF THIS AREA. ONE TO TWO FEET OF WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER ROUTE 20 ALONG STONEY RUN NEAR BUCKHANNON. WATER HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED OVER THE ROADWAYS IN TENNERTON. STORMS MOVING OVER THE AREA COULD DUMP ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. 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. SCHUMACHER &
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 27, 5:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
WVZ011-OHZ066-067-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 530 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 8 PM FOR MORGAN AND PERRY COUNTIES IN OHIO AND TYLER COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE WATCH AREA. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE WEATHER WATCH WILL CONTINUE DUE TO THE STORMS MOVING INTO A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. PERSONS IN THE WEATHER WATCH AREA SHOLD STAY TONE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS WARNINGS. END/WHITEHEAD
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:49 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
WVZ027-028-037-038-280030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 650 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995 AT 645 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN CHARLESTON DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN NICHOLAS COUNTY NEAR ZOLA AND CORNELIA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES NORTH INTO CLAY COUNTY REACHING THE jCITY OF CLAY BY 700 PM. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN BRAXTON COUNTY BY 730 PM. END/ZINN
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 6:50 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
WVZ027-028-037-038-280030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 650 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995 AT 645 PM DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN CHARLESTON DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN NICHOLAS COUNTY NEAR ZOLA AND CORNELIA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES NORTH INTO CLAY COUNTY REACHING THE CITY OF CLAY BY 700 PM. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN BRAXTON COUNTY BY 730 PM. END/ZINN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mingo, Wayne | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Taylor | 3 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.