Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 1995, 5:43 PM EDT for Wood County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1995, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1995, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wood County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1959 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 112143 FFWCRW WVC107-112345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 543 PM EDT FRI AUG 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...WOOD COUNTY RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM THE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN CHARLELSTON INDICATED THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 2.5 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS FALLEN ACROSS CENTRAL WOOD COUNTY...JUST TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY OF PARKERSBURG ...IN THE PAST HOUR. THIS AMOUNT OF RAINFALL CAN CAUSE FLASH FLOODING TO OCCUR. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL CROSS WOOD COUNTY THROUGH 7 PM. 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. SITES
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, Aug 11, 12:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before
WVZ005>008-013-014-OHZ075-083>087-KYZ101-103-111800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1250 PM EDT FRI AUG 11 1995 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY DURING THE PAST HOUR OVER SOUTHEASTERN OHIO AND EXTREME WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER WESTERN MEIGS...EASTTERN JACKSON ...WESTERN GALLIA AND EASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTIES IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE SEEN OVER WESTERN CABELL AND NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND AS THE MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES SHOW THAT 1.0 TO 2.0 TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN EXTREME NORTHEASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO. THIS WILL BRING A STRONG RISE ON SMALL STREAMS IN THIS AREA...ESPECIALLY LITTLE INDIAN GUYAN AND INDIAN GUYAN CREEKS. END/PCZ END/LAST NAME
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 12:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
WVZ005>008-013-014-OHZ075-083>087-KYZ101-103-111800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1250 PM EDT FRI AUG 11 1995 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY DURING THE PAST HOUR OVER SOUTHEASTERN OHIO AND EXTREME WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER WESTERN MEIGS...EASTTERN JACKSON ...WESTERN GALLIA AND EASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTIES IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE SEEN OVER WESTERN CABELL AND NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WIND AS THE MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES SHOW THAT 1.0 TO 2.0 TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN EXTREME NORTHEASTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY OHIO. THIS WILL BRING A STRONG RISE ON SMALL STREAMS IN THIS AREA...ESPECIALLY LITTLE INDIAN GUYAN AND INDIAN GUYAN CREEKS. END/PCZ END/LAST NAME
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 4:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
WVZ015-112130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 424 PM EDT FRI AUG 11 1995 AT 425 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE CHARLESTON METRO AREA. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...IT MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. SITES
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 4:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
WVZ015-112130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 424 PM EDT FRI AUG 11 1995 AT 425 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE CHARLESTON METRO AREA. THIS STlORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL. THE STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...IT MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. SITES
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.