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Flash Flood Warning 80, NWS Charleston, WV

June 1, 1997Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 1, 1997, 9:37 PM EDT for Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 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
Jun 1, 1997, 9:37 PM EDT (01:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1997, 12:45 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 159 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 267 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
267 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 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 020138
FFWCRW
OHC167-020445-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
937 PM EDT SUN JUN 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 935 PM...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WAS MOVING INTO WASHINGTON COUNTY. WITH
NEARLY 2 INCHES HAVEN ALREADY FALLEN EARLIER TODAY...THIS ADDITIONAL
RAIN WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING.
 
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWashington66 min
Jun 2, 5:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWashington4 hr
Jun 2, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence60 min
Jun 2, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Meigs62 min
Jun 2, 7:43 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXVinton3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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.