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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Baltimore/Washington

January 19, 19965 counties in West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this flash flood warning at Jan 19, 1996, 5:09 AM EST for 5 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 19, 1996, 5:09 AM EST (10:09 UTC)
Expired: Jan 19, 1996, 9:15 AM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Whole counties

Counties Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Pendleton County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 231 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KWBC 191010
FFWWBC
MDC001-WVC023-027-031-057-071-191415-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WASHINGTON DC
509 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WASHINGTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  915 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN WEST MARYLAND
 
   ...ALLEGANY COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...GRANT COUNTY...HAMPSHIRE COUNTY...HARDY COUNTY
   ...MINERAL COUNTY...PENDLETON COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES MODERATE TO HEAVY
RAINFALL MOVING INTO THESE LOCATIONS. THESE AREAS HAVE BEEN RECEIVING
RAIN DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...AND WARM TEMPERATURES HAVE CAUSED THE
SNOWPACK TO MELT. AS A RESULT...STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE RUNNING VERY HIGH
AND BEGINNING TO GO OUT OF THEIR BANKS. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OVER THE
NEXT SEVERAL HOURS WILL CAUSE THE FLASH FLOODING TO WORSEN. PERSONS IN
THESE LOCATIONS SHOULD MONITOR CREEKS AND STREAMS CLOSELY...AND MOVE
QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND IF FLOODING DEVELOPS.
 
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.
 
 
GSS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 19, 8:29 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Berkeley	4 hr
Jan 19, 8:54 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral	4 hr
Jan 19, 8:54 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Pendleton	4 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.