Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1997
Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 2, 1997, 7:00 AM EST for Jackson County, West Virginia; Gallia County, Meigs County, Ohio. 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, 7:00 AM EST (12:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gallia County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Jackson County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:03 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 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 114 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 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
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 2:42 AM EST, 4 hours 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
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 2:48 AM EST, 4 hours 12 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, 4:09 AM EST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
WVZ005>007-013>015-024>027-033>038-046-VAZ003-004-KYZ103-105-021000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 409 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST HAS BEEN CANCELLED... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVED INTO THE AREA EARLIER THIS MORNING...BUT WERE WEAKENING AS THE LINE MOVED EAST. PRESENT RADAR TRENDS INDICATE THAT THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS PAST. HOWEVER...THE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO ADD TO PRESENT FLOODING PROBLEMS IN WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST OHIO. BELK
Special weather statement, Mar 2, 4:10 AM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
WVZ005>007-013>015-024>027-033>038-046-VAZ003-004-KYZ103-105-021000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 409 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST HAS BEEN CANCELLED... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVED INTO THE AREA EARLIER THIS MORNING...BUT WERE WEAKENING AS THE LINE MOVED EAST. PRESENT RADAR TRENDS INDICATE THAT THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS PAST. HOWEVEVR...THE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO ADD TO PRESENT FLOODING PROBLEMS IN WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST OHIO. BELK
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 | Lincoln, Wayne | 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 | 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 |
| 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, 3:58 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 4 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 | Jackson, Vinton | 5 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1997Flash 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.