Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 28, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 1, 1997, 10:15 PM EST for Gallia County, Lawrence County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 10:15 PM EST (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gallia County, OH, Lawrence County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KCRW 020320
FFWCRW
OHC053-087-WVC035-053-020900-
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1015 PM EST SAT MAR 1 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNINGS UNTIL
400 AM EST FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN
WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA
JACKSON MASON...
EXTREME SOUTHERN OHIO
GALLIA LAWRENCE.
THE FOLLOWING CITIES IN WEST VIRGINIA ARE INCLUDED IN THE WARNING...
RIPLEY...PT. PLEASANT...
THE FOLLOWING CITIES IN OHIO ARE INCLUDED IN THE WARNING...IRONTON...
GALLIPOLIS.
COUNTY OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO REPORT MAJOR FLOODING ACROSS THE
REGION. THERE ARE MULTIPLE REPORTS OF FLOODED AND CLOSED ROADS...
SOME WHICH HAVE CAUSED MUDSLIDES AND DAM
AGED BRIDGES.
ALTHOUGH THE RAINS HAVE TEMPORARILY PULLED TO THE NORTH...
MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. THIS
ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL ONLY MAKE THE SITUATION WORSE.
SITESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 9:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Morgan, Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Perry | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Morgan, Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gallia, Meigs | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Washington | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Perry | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Vinton | 5 hr |
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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.