Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997

Flash Flood Warning 116, NWS Charleston, WV

July 23, 1997Gilmer County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1997, 8:59 PM EDT for Gilmer 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 23, 1997, 8:59 PM EDT (00:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1997, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Gilmer County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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 177 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: 550 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 240100
FFWCRW
WVC021-240400-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
859 PM EDT WED JUL 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...SOUTHERN GILMER COUNTY
 
AT 855 PM COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT THAT AROUND TWO INCHES HAS FALLEN
WITHIN THE LAST HOUR SOUTH OF THE GLENVILLE. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINS ARE
POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WARNED AREA THROUGH 11 PM WHICH WILL LIKELY CAUSE
SMALL STREAM FLOODING. THE CEDAR CREEK..STEER CREEK...AND STEWART CREEK
AREAS WILL BE THE MOST LIKELY AFFECTED. THIS INCLUDES CEDAR CREEK STATE
PARK...NORMANTOWN...AND BALDWIN.
 
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS
HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH
FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY.  MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WA*TERS.
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
 
END/JAP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 8:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	57 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 1997 Every 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.