Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996

Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Charleston, WV

May 16, 1996Lewis County, Upshur County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 16, 1996, 8:24 PM EDT for Lewis County, Upshur County, West 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, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1996, 12:30 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lewis County, WV, Upshur County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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 1996-05-17Temperature 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 1996-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 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
768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 170024
FFWCRW
WVC041-097-170430-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
824 PM EDT THU MAY 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...LEWIS COUNTY...UPSHUR COUNTY
 
HEAVY RAIN FROM EARLIER TODAY HAS MOST STREAMS AND CREEKS AT OR NEAR
BANKFULL. CURRENT RADAR IS SHOWING ANOTHER ONE TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN
LIKELY. IF YOU LIVE IN AN AREA OF POOR DRIANAGE...ALONG A CREEK OR
STREAM 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 8:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph5 hr
May 16, 8:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas4 hr
May 16, 11:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas, Randolph, Upshur5 hr
May 17, 12:03 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBarbour, Harrison4 hr
May 17, 3:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBarbour, Randolph, Upshur3 hr
May 17, 3:55 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas3 hr
May 17, 6:49 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBarbour, Pocahontas, Randolph, Upshur3 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.