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Flash Flood Warning 107, NWS Charleston, WV

July 31, 1996Boyd County, Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 1996, 4:05 AM EDT for Boyd County, Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 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 31, 1996, 4:05 AM EDT (08:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 1996, 7:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 881 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 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
881 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.8

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 31, 3:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXGilmer3 hr
Jul 31, 3:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBarbour, Upshur3 hr
Jul 31, 3:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBraxton3 hr
Jul 31, 5:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMason4 hr
Jul 31, 5:09 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXGilmer4 hr
Jul 31, 5:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRoane3 hr
Jul 31, 6:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha, Putnam4 hr
Jul 31, 7:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph, Upshur3 hr
Jul 31, 7:19 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWebster3 hr
Jul 31, 7:19 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXClay3 hr
Jul 31, 7:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBraxton3 hr
Jul 31, 8:11 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha, Roane2 hr
Jul 31, 10:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph, Upshur, Webster3 hr
Jul 31, 10:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBraxton3 hr
Jul 31, 11:06 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas3 hr
Jul 31, 1:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph, Upshur, Webster3 hr
Jul 31, 1:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBraxton3 hr
Jul 31, 1:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph, Upshur, Webster2 hr
Jul 31, 1:55 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBraxton2 hr
Jul 31, 2:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas105 min
Jul 31, 4:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBraxton, Webster3 hr
Jul 31, 4:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph3 hr
Jul 31, 2:23 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXLawrence2 hr
Jul 31, 7:52 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBoyd, Greenup3 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.