Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 30, 1995, 9:29 PM EDT for Morgan County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 1995, 9:29 PM EDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1995, 11:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morgan County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 556 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 010132 FFWCRW OHC115-010330- FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 929 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...MORGAN COUNTY MEIGS CREEK REMAINS OUT OF ITS BANKS AND IS COVERING STATE ROUTE 78 JUST WEST OF BRISTOL IN THE NORTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTOMS WILL AFFECT THE AREA FOR THE NEXT 30 MINUTES...AND THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL MAY CAUSE ADDITIONAL FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CRDOSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WATCH OUT FOR MUD SLIDES. SITES/RPY/LEW
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 30, 4:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 34 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, 4 hours 33 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, 4 hours 19 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, 4 hours 13 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 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
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 7:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
WVZ006-007-OHZ086-087-010030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 715 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS PUSHING SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHERN GALLIA AND NORTHWESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN OHIO... THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN OHIO AT 710 PM. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. WINDS MAY GUST BRIEFLY TO 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR IN EASTERN LAWRENCE AND SOUTHEASTERN GALIA COUNTIES IN OHIO AND MASON AND JACKSON COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA DURING THE NEXT HOUR AS THE STORMS MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. END/ZINN
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.