Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997

Flash Flood Warning 101, NWS Charleston, WV

June 2, 1997Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1997, 8:30 PM EDT for Wayne 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
Jun 2, 1997, 8:30 PM EDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1997, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1997-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 477 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1997-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 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
477 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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 030030
FFWCRW
WVC099-030330-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
830 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 825 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE
LAST HOUR IN WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY AROUND HUBBARDSTOWN. IN ADDITION...3
TO 4 INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN THE LAST 3 HOURS A COUPLE OF MILES NORTHEAST
OF DUNLOW.
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS
HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLAS*H
FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.
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
Jun 2, 9:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas, Webster4 hr
Jun 2, 9:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXLewis4 hr
Jun 3, 5:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha2 hr
Jun 3, 6:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBoone2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997

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.