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Flash Flood Warning 58, NWS Charleston, WV

July 27, 1995Pocahontas County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 1995, 4:01 PM EDT for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 1995, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Pocahontas County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 1191 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 885 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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 272003
FFWCRW
WVC075-272300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
401 PM EDT THU JUL 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN EAST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...POCAHONTAS COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR ESTIMATED 2.5 TO 3.0 INCHES OF RAINFALL IN CENTRAL
POCAHONTAS...10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARLINGTON NEAR SENECA STATE
FORECAST. THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL MAY CAUSE STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE
OUT OF THERE BANKS.
 
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 COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Randolph	52 min
Jul 27, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell	43 min
Jul 27, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	45 min
Jul 27, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	30 min
Jul 27, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Roane	52 min
Jul 27, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette	51 min
Jul 27, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gilmer	49 min
Jul 27, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Clay	49 min
Jul 27, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Calhoun	41 min
Jul 27, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Fayette, Kanawha	43 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1995 Every 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.