Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 121, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 1997, 10:59 PM EDT for Dickenson County, 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
- Jul 28, 1997, 10:59 PM EDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1997, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dickenson County, VA
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 1421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
Local storm report, Jul 28, 7:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
717 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0625 PM TORNADO WV WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97 KANAWHA TREES DOWNLocal storm report, Jul 28, 7:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
738 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0720 PM GRUNDY VA WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97 BUCHANAN NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
LINES DOWN SOME TREES ARE
BLOCKING ROADSSpecial weather statement, Jul 28, 7:52 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
WVZ005-006-013>018-024>030-032>040-042>047-290200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 752 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM...FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... FAYETTE...NICHOLAS...GREENBRIER...MONROE...SUMMERS...RALEIGH... WYOMING...MCDOWELL...MERCER...MINGO...LOGAN.. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH THIS AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS WITH POSSIBLE DAMAGE AS WELL AS HEAVY DOWNPOURS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN URBAN AREAS...LOW LYING AREA AND AREAS THAT HAVE POOR DRAINAGE. ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... LINCOLN...BOONE...KANAWHA...PUTNAM...CLAY...MASON...JACKSON...ROANE... WIRT...CALHOUN...GILMER...BRAXTON...WEBSTER...POCAHONTAS...RANDOLPH... UPSHUR...LEWIS...RITCHIE...DODDRIDGE...HARRISON...BARBOUR...TAYLOR... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DECREASED OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS AND AS A RESULT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. SOME URBAN FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SOME AREAS FROM TONIGHTS RAINS...SUCH AS LOW LYING AREAS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY DEVELOP AS A FEW MORE SHOWERS MOVE INTO THE AREA. END/
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 8:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
WVZ005-006-013>018-024>030-032>040-042>047-290200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 752 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM...FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... FAYETTE...NICHOLAS...GREENBRIER...MONROE...SUMMERS...RALEIGH... WYOMING...MCDOWELL...MERCER...MINGO...LOGAN.. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH THIS AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WIND GUSTS WITH POSSIBLE DAMAGE AS WELL AS HEAVY DOWNPOURS. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN URBAN AREAS...LOW LYING AREA AND AREAS THAT HAVE POOR DRAINAGE. ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... LINCOLN...BOONE...KANAWHA...PUTNAM...CLAY...MASON...JACKSON...ROANE... WIRT...CALHOUN...GILMER...BRAXTON...WEBSTER...POCAHONTAS...RANDOLPH... UPSHUR...LEWIS...RITCHIE...DODDRIDGE...HARRISON...BARBOUR...TAYLOR... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DECREASED OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS AND AS A RESULT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE UNTIL MIDNIGHT. THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. SOME URBANN FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN SOME AREAS FROM TONIGHTS RAINS...SUCH AS LOW LYING AREAS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY DEVELOP AS A FEW MORE SHOWERS MOVE INTO THE AREA. END/
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 9:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
WVZ033>037-290300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 941 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL OF WEST VIRGINIA... THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA EARLIER THIS EVENING PRODUCED SOME SEVERE WEATHER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST WHILE WEAKENING. AS A RESULT THERE IS NO THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. DRIER AND COOLER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. END/DANL
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 9:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
WVZ033>037-290300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 941 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR ALL OF WEST VIRGINIA... THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA EARLIER THIS EVENING PRODUCED SOME SEVERE WEATHER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST WHILE WEAKENING. AS A RESULT THERE IS NO THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT. A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. DRIER AND COOLER AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. END/DANL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 10:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Dickenson | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 11:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Dickenson | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.