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Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Charleston, WV

August 1, 1995Kanawha County, Putnam County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 1995, 11:58 PM EDT for Kanawha County, Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 1995, 11:58 PM EDT (03:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1995, 2:30 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kanawha County, WV, Putnam County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 68 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1995-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2348 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1995-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1256 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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 020400
FFWCRW
WVC039-079-020700-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1158 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...WESTERN KANAWHA COUNTY...PUTNAM COUNTY
 
THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS PUBLIC AND POLICE REPORTS OF SERIOUS FLASH
FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN SOUTH CHARLESTON WV AND SPRING HILL WV AND
PARTS OF PUTNAM COUNTY WV.
 
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 CROSSb A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. DO NOT DRIVE AROUND POLICE BARRICADES.
 
EOM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 9:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln40 min
Aug 1, 9:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne63 min
Aug 1, 9:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLogan, Mingo66 min
Aug 1, 10:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone, Lincoln62 min
Aug 1, 11:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPutnam40 min
Aug 1, 11:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha48 min
Aug 2, 12:06 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson54 min

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.