Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jan 19, 1996, 9:10 AM EST for Webster County, West Virginia. It was in force for 6 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
- Jan 19, 1996, 9:10 AM EST (14:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 1996, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Webster County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 191406 FFWCRW WVC101-192000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING...EXTENDED UNTIL 300 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 901 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...WEBSTER COUNTY THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. HEAVY RAINS WILL END DURING THE LATE MORNING BUT STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL NOT LEVEL OFF UNTIL THE AFTERNOON. THIS WILL MEAN MAJOR FLOODING PROBLEMS THROUGHOUT THE DAY. IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT PERSONS STAY AWAY FROM WATER OVER ROADWAYS. 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. END AAR
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, Jan 19, 7:50 AM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
WVZ005>022-024>032-039-040-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-KYZ101>105- 107-119-191700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 750 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996 ...ICY ROADS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING... A COLD FRONT PUSHING THROUGH THE AREA IS CAUSING TEMPERATURES TO DROP RAPIDLY BELOW FREEZING THIS MORNING. STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL OF LAST NIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING IS FREEZING AND CAUSING SOME ROADS TO BECOME ICY. SNOW SHOWERS MOVING INTO THE AREA WILL ONLY AGGRIEVATE THIS PROBLEM. DRIVER'S SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION ON AREA ROADWAYS ON THEIR MORNING COMMUTE. ROADWAYS WILL BE IMPROVING LATER THIS MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON AS ROADWAYS DRY. END/ADAMS WUUS01KRNK 0
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 7:50 AM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
WVZ005>022-024>032-039-040-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-KYZ101>105- 107-119-191700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 750 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996 ...ICY ROADS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING... A COLD FRONT PUSHING THROUGH THE AREA IS CAUSING TEMPERATURES TO DROP RAPIDLY BELOW FREEZING THIS MORNING. STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS FROM THE HEAVY RAINFALL OF LAST NIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING IS FREEZING AND CAUSING SOME ROADS TO BECOME ICY. SNOW SHOWERS MOVING INTO THE AREA WILL ONLY AGGRIEVATE THIS PROBLEM. DRIVER'S SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION ON AREA ROADWAYS ON THEIR MORNING COMMUTE. ROADWAYS WILL BE IMPROVING LATER THIS MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON AS ROADWAYS DRY. END/ADAMS WUUS01KRNK 0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 4:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton | 2 hr |
| Jan 19, 4:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 3 hr |
| Jan 19, 5:20 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 3 hr |
| Jan 19, 5:20 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jan 19, 8:34 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette, Raleigh | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 8:34 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 8:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Randolph | 6 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.