Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 93, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1996, 10:35 AM EDT for Randolph 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
- Jul 19, 1996, 10:35 AM EDT (14:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:38 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 191433 FFWCRW WVC083-192030- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1035 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA ...RANDOLPH COUNTY RUNODFF FROM HEAVY MORNING RAINFALL OVER SATURATED GROUND HAS CAUSED MANY STREAMS TO RISE TO BANKFULL...AND A FEW STREAMS TO BEGIN TO OVERFLOW. LEADING CREEK...WHICH FLOWS INTO THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE CITY OF ELKINS...WAS REPORTED TO BE OVERFLOWING. PRECAUTIONARY EVACUTATIONS WERE TAKING PLACE ALONG PORTIONS OF LEADING CREEK NORTH OF ELKINS. WATER WAS NEAR U S ROUTE 119 WHICH RUNS ALONG THIS STREAM. ALTHROUGH THERE HAS BEEN A BREAK IN THE HEAVY RAIN...MORE THUNDERSTORMS NOW MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA WILL MOVE INTO RANDOLPH COUNTY BETWEEN 1045 AM AND NOON. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. RUNOFF WILL BE RAPID AND MORE STREAM OVERFLOW CAN BE ANTICIPATED. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WALTER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WATCH OUT FOR MUD SLIDES. ZINN
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, Jul 19, 9:45 AM EDT, 50 minutes before
WVZ009>011-019-020-031-032-040-OHZ066-067-076-191400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 944 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM HAS BEEN CANCELLED... A LINE OS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH EXTREME NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE YET BEEN RECEIVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. RADAR HAS INDICATED THAT THE SHOWERSP AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN. WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER DIMINISHED...THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED EARLY. BELK
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 9:49 AM EDT, 46 minutes before
WVZ009>011-019-020-031-032-040-OHZ066-067-076-191400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 948 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM HAS BEEN CANCELLED... A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH EXTREME NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE YET BEEN RECEIVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. RADAR HAS INDICATED TjHAT THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN. WITH THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER DIMINISHED...THE WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED EARLY. BELK CORRECTED TYPOS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 9:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer | 3 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.