Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 1995, 9:09 AM EDT for Barbour County, Taylor County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1995, 9:09 AM EDT (13:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1995, 12:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, WV, Taylor County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 141308 FFWCRW WVC001-091-141645- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 909 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...BARBOUR COUNTY...TAYLOR COUNTY RAINFALL OF NEARLY TWO INCHES SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS TAYLOR AND BARBOUR COUNTIES HAS BROUGHT MANY SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS NEAR OR OVER BANKFULL. THE HEAVIEST RAINS ARE BEGINNING TO TAPER OFF...BUT FURTHER RISES ALONG AREA STREMAS ARE LIKELY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLASH FLOOpD 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. REYNOLDS
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 14, 5:03 AM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
WVZ007>012-016>020-029>032-039-040-141000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 500 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THIS MORNING... A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO PROGRESS NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE STRONG AND MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL, BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND GUSTY WINDS. MOST OF THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY IS STILL NORTH AND WEST OF WEST VIRGINIA IN SOUTHEAST OHIO. HOWEVER...STAY ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AS THIS ACTIVITY CONTINUES TO ADVANCE INTO WEST VIRGINIA DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. END/ROZANSKI
Special weather statement, May 14, 8:12 AM EDT, 57 minutes before
WVZ005>008-013>016-018-024>030-033>039-042-043-047-KYZ101>105- 107-119-141300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 810 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST VIRGINIA AND EASTERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS ISSUED EARLIER THIS MORNING FOR MUCH OF WEST VIRGINIA AND EASTERN KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE STRONGEST ACTIVITY HAS MOVED THROUGH THE STATE AND PUSHED INTO SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA. A FEW WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...MAINLY FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA...DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS HOWEVER THE ACTIVITY NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. THE HEAVY RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH THE EARLY MORNING CONVECTION HAS BROUGHT MANY SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO NEAR BANKFUL OR OVER FOR MANY LOCATIONS IN WEST VIRGINIA. THEREFORE PORTIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA ARE CURRENTLY UNDER A FLASH FLOOD WATCH OR WARNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENT OR POSSIBLE FLOOD WARNINGS. END/ROZANSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 42 min |
| May 14, 6:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis | 6 hr |
| May 14, 6:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 6 hr |
| May 14, 7:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 5 hr |
| May 14, 7:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 5 hr |
| May 14, 8:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 5 hr |
| May 14, 12:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Ritchie, Tyler | 2 hr |
| May 14, 12:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Lewis | 2 hr |
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.