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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Charleston, WV

June 30, 1995Gallia County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 1995, 6:16 PM EDT for Gallia County, Ohio. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 1995, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1995, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Gallia County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 53 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 791 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 302217
FFWCRW
OHC053-010215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
616 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 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 SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...GALLIA COUNTY
 
AT 610 PM CHARLESTON RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING SOUTHERN PIKE COUNTY TO EAST OF RIO GRANDE IN GALLIA COUNTY.
RADAR SHOWS ESTIMATES OF OVER 3 INCHES OF RAIN NEAR OAK HILL AND OVER
1.5 INCHES NEAR RIO GRANDE. CREEKS WERE COMING OUT OF THEIR BANKS NEAR
VINTON...CENTERVILLE AND RIO GRANDE. WITH ANOTHER ONE TO TWO INCHES
OF RAIN EXPECTED DURING THE NEXT HOUR...MORE FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN THIS
AREA.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.  DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COV~ERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
SCHUMACHER
 
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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

Local storm report, Jun 30, 1:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
130 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 1995

DATE / TIME    COUNTY        LOCATION            EVENT

6-29/  415 PM  OH/ATHENS     ALEXANDER TWNSHP RD TREES DOWN ON ROAD
                             ON US 50 WEST

6-29/  515 PM- WV/CABELL     EAST HUNTINGTON &   TREES BLOW DOWN
       530 PM                EASTERN CABELL CO

6-29/  640 PM  WV/JACKSON    I-77 NEAR GOLDTOWN  TREES BLOWN DOWN

6-29/  620 PM  WV/KANAWHA    CROSS LANES         WIND 55-60 MPH

END/PCZ

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Local storm report, Jun 30, 1:37 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
130 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 1995

DATE / TIME    COUNTY        LOCATION            EVENT

6-29/  415 PM  OH/ATHENS     ALEXANDER TWNSHP RD TREES DOWN ON ROAD
                             ON US 50 WEST

6-29/  515 PM- WV/CABELL     EAST HUNTINGTON &   TREES BLOW DOWN
       530 PM                EASTERN CABELL CO

6-29/  640 PM  WV/JACKSON    I-77 NEAR GOLDTOWN  TREES BLOWN DOWN

6-2B9/  620 PM  WV/KANAWHA    CROSS LANES         WIND 55-60 MPH

END/PCZ

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 4:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

WVZ007-OHZ083-085>087-302300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
455 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN OHIO...

A SMALL LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CENTRAL MEIGS COUNTY
THROUGH NORTHERN GALLIA COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN OHIO
AT 450 PM. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR.

GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST ACROSS THESE COUNTIES AND INTO
MASON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA BETWEEN 500 PM AND 530 PM.

END/ZINN

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 4:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

WVZ007-OHZ083-085>087-302300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
455 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN OHIO...

A SMALL LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CENTRAL MEIGS COUNTY
THROUGH NORTHERN GALLIA COUNTY INTO SOUTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN OHIO
AT 450 PM. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR.

GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS .AS THEY MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST ACROSS THESE COUNTIES AND INTO
MASON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA BETWEEN 500 PM AND 530 PM.

END/ZINN

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 5:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

KYZ102>105-302300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
510 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 1995

...HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY...

AT 500 PM A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS PUSHING THROUGH CARTER COUNTY
KENTUCKY. RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 1.25 INCHES OF
RAIN HAS FALLEN IN EXTREME WESTERN CARTER COUNTY NEAR ROSE HILL IN
THE PAST HOUR. A COOPERATIVE OBSERVER IN OLIVE HILL REPORTED OVER
HALF AN INCH AS OF 445 PM.

THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTHEAST THROUGH CARTER COUNTY
...NORTHERN ELLIOT...SOUTHERN BOYD AND INTO LAWRENCE COUNTY DURING
THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. THES STORMS LOOK TO BE WEAKENING
SOMEWHAT...BUT LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OF 0.50 TO 1.00 INCH IN AN HOUR
WILL BE POSSIBLE.

MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH WATER FLOWING ACROSS
ROADWAYS.

END/ZINN

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 5:16 PM EDT, 1 hour before

KYZ102>105-302300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
510 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 1995

...HEAVY RAIN MOVING THROUGH PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY...

AT 500 PM A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS PUSHING THROUGH CARTER COUNTY
KENTUCKY. RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT 1.25 INCHES OF
RAIN HAS FALLEN IN EXTREME WESTERN CARTER COUNTY NEAR ROSE HILL IN
THE PAST HOUR. A COOPERATIVE OBSERVER IN OLIVE HILL REPORTED OVER
HALF AN INCH AS OF 445 PM.

THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTHEAST THROUGH CARTER COUNTY
...NORTHERN ELLIOT...SOUTHERN BOYD AND INTO LAWRENCE COUNTY DURING
THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. THES STORMS LOOK TO BE WEAKENING
SOMEWHAT...BUT LOCALLY HE>AVY RAIN OF 0.50 TO 1.00 INCH IN AN HOUR
WILL BE POSSIBLE.

MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING 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 30, 5:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson	3 hr
Jun 30, 7:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Morgan	2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.