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Flash Flood Warning 144, NWS Charleston, WV

September 6, 1996Pocahontas County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Sep 6, 1996, 2:06 PM EDT for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 5 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
Sep 6, 1996, 2:06 PM EDT (18:06 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Pocahontas County, WV

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-09-06Temperature 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 361 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
361 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
790 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 061808
FFWCRW
WVC075-062330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
206 PM EDT FRI SEP 6 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...NORTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY
 
RAINS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN THE HEADWATERS OF THE
GREENBRIER RIVER.  SMALL STREAMS ARE BEGINNING TO OVERFLOW
...OR RUN AT BANKFULL.  STEADY MODERATE RAIN WILL LIKELY CONTINUE
IN THE DURBIN/BARTOW REGION INTO LATE AFTERNOON.
 
SO SMALL STREAMS FLOODING IS LIKELY ACROSS NORTHERN POCAHONTAS
COUNTY.  AS A RESULT...THE HEADWATERS OF THE GREENBRIER RIVER
AROUND DURBIN MAY APPROACH THE 7 FOOT BANKFULL READING
EARLY THIS FRIDAY EVENING.
 
YET...RAIN WILL LIKELY DECREASE...FROM THE SOUTH...AFTER 4 PM...
IN POCAHONTAS COUNTY.
 
 
END / KTB
 
 
 
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
Sep 6, 1:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph6 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.