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Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Charleston, WV

July 30, 1996Pleasants County, Tyler County, West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 1996, 4:38 PM EDT for Pleasants County, Tyler County, West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio. 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: Jul 30, 1996, 4:38 PM EDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Washington County, OH, Pleasants County, WV, Tyler County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 464 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 665 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jul 30, 3:39 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

OHZ075-302000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
338 PM EDT TUE JUL 30 1996

THE TORNADO WARNING FOR ATHENS COUNTY OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE STORM
NO LONGER SHOWS TORNADIC CHARACTERISTICS AND HAS MOVED INTO WESTERN
WASHINGTON COUNTY. QUARTER SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN NELSONVILLE AROUND
320 PM.

JAP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	39 min
Jul 30, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie	44 min
Jul 30, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie	38 min
Jul 30, 4:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Pleasants, Tyler, Wood	2 hr
Jul 30, 4:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wood	2 hr
Jul 30, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gilmer	30 min
Jul 30, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Morgan	36 min
Jul 30, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens	39 min
Jul 30, 3:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Athens	38 min
Jul 30, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	27 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1996 Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.