Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997

Flash Flood Warning 103, NWS Charleston, WV

June 2, 1997Pocahontas County, Webster County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 2, 1997, 9:00 PM EDT for Pocahontas 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 2, 1997, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1997, 1:00 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pocahontas County, WV, Webster County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 222 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 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 030100
FFWCRW
WVC075-041-101-030500-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
900 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  100 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN EAST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...SOUTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...LEWIS COUNTY
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...EASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY
 
FLOODING CONTINUES OVER LEWIS AND SOUTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTIES.
ADDITIONAL MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THESE
COUNTIES...PROLONGING THE FLOODING.
 
IN ADDITION...SOME HEAVY SHOWERS WERE OCCURRING OVER EASTERN WEBSTER
COUNTY.  THE GROUND IS SATURATED ACROSS THIS AREA AND FLASH FLOODING IS
EXPECT TO DEVELOP ON THE HEADWATERS OF THE ELK...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE
BERGOO AREA.
 
 
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHExRE THE
WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW
YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WATCH OUT FOR MUD SLIDES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 8:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWayne3 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.