Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 1995, 8:09 PM EDT for Roane County, Wirt County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 1995, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Roane County, WV, Wirt County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 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 280010 FFWCRW WVC105-087-280315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 809 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...WIRT COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...NORTHERN ROANE COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN ROANE COUNTY AND SOUTHERN WIRT COUNTY MOVING SLOWLY NORTH. RADAR ESTIMATED THAT 2.0 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 700 PM AND 800 PM. ALONG THESE COUNTY BORDERS. THIS IS ENOUGH RAINFALL TO CAUSE FLO ICREEKS IN THESE AREAS. 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.
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, May 27, 4:28 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
WVZ033-034-VAZ004-272300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 425 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS FALL OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... AT 415 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN CHARLESTON IS INDICATING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS HAS MOVED OVER PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. THE HEAVIEST SHOWERS ARE OVER SOUTHERN MCDOWELL COUNTY NEAR WAR. HOWEVER AT THIS TIME THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF FLOODING. PERSONS VENTURING OUT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RISING WATER ON STREAMS AND CREEKS AND POSSIBLE MINOR FLOODING ON AREA ROADWAYS. THESE SHTOWERS WILL BE MOVING EAST OF THE AREA BY EARLY THIS EVENING. END/ADAMS
Special weather statement, May 27, 6:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
WVZ029-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 557 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH GILMER COUNTY... AT 600 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS OVER CENTRAL GILMER COUNTY JUST WEST OF GLENVILLE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AT 10 MILES AND HOUR. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE INTO RITCHIE COUNTY BY 645 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY RISING WATER ON THE SMALLER STREAMS AND CREEKS. END/MJS
Special weather statement, May 27, 7:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
WVZ018-028>030-039-280100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 656 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...HEAVY SHOWERS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA... AT 700 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS THE SPENCER...GLENVILLE AND SUTTON AREAS. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINED LOCALLY TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER BRAXTON AND GILMER COUNTIES WHERE LOCALLY 1 TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ACCUMULATED. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AT AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. SMALLER STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL LIKELY RISE RAPIDLY IN THESE AREAS. BE ALERT FOR MINOR FLOODING OF THE ROADWAYS. END/MJS
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1995Every 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.