Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 3:58 AM EST for Lawrence County, Ohio. 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
- Mar 2, 1997, 3:58 AM EST (08:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lawrence County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 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, 9.0 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 020858 FFWCRW OHC009-053-079-087-105-115-163-167-WVC035-053-021300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 358 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 SOUTHEAST OHIO ...ATHENS COUNTY...GALLIA COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY ...LAWRENCE COUNTY...MEIGS COUNTY...MORGAN COUNTY...VINTON COUNTY ...WASHINGTON COUNTY IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...JACKSON COUNTY...MASON COUNTY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION MAY PRODUCE ANOTHER ONE HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO AGGREVATE CURRENT FLOODING CONDITIONS. PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED TO SLOWLY END FROM THE NORTHWEST THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. 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 WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. END/JAP
The 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 1, 10:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gallia, Lawrence | 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, 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 |
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.