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Flash Flood Warning 40, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1996, 2:56 AM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia; Buchanan County, 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
- May 16, 1996, 2:56 AM EDT (06:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1996, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buchanan County, VA, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:57 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 230 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 160657 FFWCRW VAC027-WVC045-059-043-099-161100- BULLETIN SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 256 AM EDT THU MAY 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING ISSUED EARLIER...UNTIL 700 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ...BUCHANAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...LOGAN COUNTY...MINGO COUNTY IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...LINCOLN COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY STREAMS AND CREEKS REMAIN AT OR NEAR BANKFUL ACROSS THE REGION...WITH SOME STREAMS AND CREEKS PUSHING OVER BANKFUL. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A STREAM OR CREEK THATS PRONE TO FLOODING...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. >
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 9:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 6 hr |
| May 15, 10:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 4 hr |
| May 15, 11:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 5 hr |
| May 16, 12:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell | 5 hr |
| May 16, 12:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell | 5 hr |
| May 16, 2:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 4 hr |
| May 16, 3:54 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 4 hr |
| May 16, 9:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph, Webster | 5 hr |
| May 16, 10:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 4 hr |
| May 16, 2:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 3 hr |
| May 16, 2:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph, Webster | 6 hr |
| May 16, 4:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 4 hr |
| May 16, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison | 5 hr |
| May 16, 7:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Tyler | 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.