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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV

January 19, 1996Braxton County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jan 19, 1996, 4:06 AM EST for Braxton County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 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, 4:06 AM EST (09:06 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 1996, 6:15 AM EST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Braxton County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1996-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 682 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
682 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1061 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 190937
FFWCRW
WVC007-191115-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
406 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...BRAXTON COUNTY
 
RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAGES INDICATED RAINFALL EXCEEDING FLASH FLOOD
GUIDANCE OVER BRAXTON COUNTY.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 4:21 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha3 hr
Jan 19, 5:20 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXLincoln3 hr
Jan 19, 5:20 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXHarrison3 hr
Jan 19, 8:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXFayette, Raleigh4 hr
Jan 19, 8:34 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXNicholas4 hr
Jan 19, 8:50 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas, Randolph6 hr
Jan 19, 9:10 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXWebster6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.