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Flash Flood Warning 81, NWS Charleston, WV

June 19, 1996Nicholas County, Webster County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1996, 5:26 PM EDT for Nicholas County, Webster 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
Jun 19, 1996, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Nicholas County, WV, Webster County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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, 9.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 240 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
240 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
744 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 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 192127
FFWCRW
WVC067-101-200130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
526 PM EDT WED JUN 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...NICHOLAS COUNTY...SOUTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOW SEVERAL HEAVY
THUNDERSTORMS FORMING AND REPEATEDLY MOVING NORTHEAST OVER THE WARNING
AREA. EACH THUNDERSTORM HAS BEEN DUMPING AN INCH OR MORE OF RAIN IN LESS
THAN AN HOUR. SEVERAL MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CROSS THE
WARNING AREA THIS EVENING.
 
MOST DEATHS I<N FLASH FLOODING 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. DO NOT DRIVE AROUND POLICE BARRICADES.
 
EOM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 8:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWebster3 hr
Jun 19, 7:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXHarrison4 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.