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Flash Flood Warning 90, NWS Charleston, WV

July 2, 1996Lincoln County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 2, 1996, 8:43 AM EDT for Lincoln County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 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: Jul 2, 1996, 8:43 AM EDT (12:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 1996, 11:45 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 385 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1326 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 021243
FFWCRW
WVC043-021545-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
843 AM EDT TUE JUL 2 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY
 
A PUBLIC REPORT OF 3.14 INCHES OF RAIN IN HAMLIN WV WITHIN AN HOUR IS
MORE THAN SUFFICIENT FOR FLASH FLOODING. A RAINFALL OF 2.6 INCHES OF
RAIN IN THREE HOURS WOULD BE ENOUGH TO BEGIN FLOODING. FORTUNATELY...
THERE SHOULD BE NO ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT RAIN DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF
HOURS.
 
MOST DEATHS IN 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 4:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam	40 min
Jul 2, 8:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Putnam	29 min
Jul 2, 8:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lincoln	27 min
Jul 2, 8:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boone	48 min
Jul 2, 10:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Nicholas	35 min
Jul 2, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne	45 min
Jul 2, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Harrison, Taylor	37 min
Jul 2, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Barbour	35 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1996 Every 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.