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Flash Flood Warning 131, NWS Charleston, WV

August 19, 1997Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 19, 1997, 9:17 PM EDT for Wayne 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
Aug 19, 1997, 9:17 PM EDT (01:17 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 1997, 1:15 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 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 1997-08-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 72 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 1997-08-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 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 200119
FFWCRW
WVC099-200515-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
917 PM EDT TUE AUG 19 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY BOTH SHOW A RAPIDLY
DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WAYNE COUNTY. UP TO TWO AND A HALF
INCHES OF RAIN IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE FALLEN WITHIN AN HOUR IN WESTERN
AREAS OF WAYNE COUNTY WV. THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE ALREADY
MORE THAN SUFFICIENT FOR FLASH FLOODING.
 
THIS STORM IS A SLOW-MOVER...AND WILL LINGER OVER WAYNE COUNTY AS IT
CONTINUES TO INTENSIFY.  FLASH FLOODING COULD BECOME WIDESPREAD ACROSS
WAYNE COUNTY WV.  OTHER LARGE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD WAYNE
COUNTY...AND REPRESENT AN ADDITIONAL FLOODING THREAT.
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 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.
 
.EOM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 19, 9:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBoone, Lincoln, Logan4 hr
Aug 19, 9:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMingo4 hr
Aug 19, 10:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMcDowell, Wyoming4 hr
Aug 19, 11:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha, Raleigh4 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.