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Flash Flood Warning 37, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 3:06 AM EST for Lincoln County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 5 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 2, 1997, 3:06 AM EST (08:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lincoln County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 020806 FFWCRW WVC007-013-021-043-099-015-039-087-021300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 306 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...BRAXTON COUNTY...CALHOUN COUNTY...GILMER COUNTY IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...LINCOLN COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...CLAY COUNTY...KANAWHA COUNTY...ROANE COUNTY A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FROM A HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN WILL CAUSE STREAMS AND CREEKS TO ONCE AGAIN REACH OR EXCEED BANKFULL. 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 WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHtEN WATER BEGINS RISING. END/JAP
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, Mar 2, 2:42 AM EST, 24 minutes before
KYZ101>103-105-021200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 242 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR TORNADOES NO LONGER A THREAT FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST KENTUCKY... THE TORNADO WATCH THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR CARTER AND GREENUP COUTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST OF KENTUCKY AND THE COUNTIES OF BOYD AND LAWRENCE HAVE BEEN CLEARED OF THE WATCH. HEAVY RAIN IS STILL A THREAT TONIGHT IN THESE COUNTIES AND A FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR BOYD..CARTER..GREENUP AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES CONTINUES UNTIL 800 AM SUNDAY MORNING. ZINN
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 2:48 AM EST, 18 minutes before
KYZ101>103-105-021200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 242 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR TORNADOES NO LONGER A THREAT FOR EXTREME NORTHEAST KENTUCKY... THE TORNADO WATCH THAT HAD BEEN IN EFFECT FOR CARTER AND GREENUP COUTIES HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST OF KENTUCKY AND THE COUNTIES OF BOYD AND LAWRENCE HAVE BEEN CLEARED OF THE WATCH. HEAVY RAIN IS STILL A THREAT TONIGHT IN THESE COUNTIES AND A FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR BOYD..CARTER..GREENUP AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES CONTINUES UNTIL 800 AM SUNDAY MORNING. ZINN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 10:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Ritchie, Tyler | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wirt, Wood | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Putnam | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Kanawha, Roane | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason | 4 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Roane, Wirt | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Ritchie | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pleasants, Tyler, Wood | 5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.