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Flash Flood Warning 118, NWS Charleston, WV

July 27, 1997Wood County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 1997, 8:18 PM EDT for Wood 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 27, 1997, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1997, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 27, 7:57 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

OHZ084-280020-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
757 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 1997

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH VINTON COUNTY UNTIL
720 PM...

A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH VINTON COUNTY OHIO
UNTIL AROUND 720 PM.  THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE SOME STRONG WINDS AND
HEAVY RAINS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES.  THIS WILL CAUSE SOME BRIEF DRAINAGE
PROBLEMS ON ROADWAYS.  PERSONS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH
WATER CROSSING OVER ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY NEAR STREAMS.

END/REZEK

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 8:02 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

OHZ084-280020-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
757 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 1997

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH VINTON COUNTY UNTIL
720 PM...

A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH VINTON COUNTY OHIO
UNTIL AROUND 720 PM.  THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE SOME STRONG WINDS AND
HEAVY RAINS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES.  THIS WILL CAUSE SOME BRIEF DRAINAGE
PROBLEMS ON ROADWAYS.  PERSONS SHOULD NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THdROUGH
WATER CROSSING OVER ROADWAYS...ESPECIALLY NEAR STREAMS.

END/REZEK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 8:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wood	3 hr
Jul 27, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	26 min
Jul 27, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	24 min
Jul 27, 9:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Roane	42 min
Jul 27, 10:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	39 min
Jul 27, 10:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Webster	36 min
Jul 28, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Tyler	45 min
Jul 28, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Pleasants	27 min
Jul 28, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	33 min
Jul 28, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie	49 min
Jul 28, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Harrison	46 min
Jul 28, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wirt	36 min
Jul 28, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Mason	38 min
Jul 28, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gilmer	47 min
Jul 28, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	52 min
Jul 28, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Cabell	45 min
Jul 28, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Putnam	67 min
Jul 28, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	54 min
Jul 28, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Kanawha	45 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.