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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Charleston, WV

March 1, 19974 counties in West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 1, 1997, 9:37 AM EST for 4 counties in West Virginia. 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 1, 1997, 9:37 AM EST (14:37 UTC)
Expired
Mar 1, 1997, 2:00 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Putnam County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:40 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 204 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-03-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-03-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 411 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
411 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
353 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 011438
FFWCRW
KYC019-043-127-OHC053-087-WVC035-043-053-099-039-079-011900-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
937 AM EST SAT MAR 1 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN EAST KENTUCKY
 
   ...BOYD COUNTY...CARTER COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...GALLIA COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...JACKSON COUNTY...LINCOLN COUNTY...MASON COUNTY
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...KANAWHA COUNTY...PUTNAM COUNTY
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON IS CONSOLIDATING AND
EXTENDING THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS FOR THE MENTIONED COUNTIES.
 
THE TWO NEW ADDITIONS ARE PUTNAM COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA AND GALLIA COUNTY
OHIO.
 
IN GALLIA OH...SEVERAL ROADS HAVE BEEN REPORTED AS BEING FLOODED.  A
BRIDGE IN DOWNTOWN GALLIPOLIS IS REPORTED UNDER WATER.  THE BRIDGE IS AT
THE INTERSECTION OF RT 7 AND RT 141.  MUD SLIDES HAVE ALSO BEEN FOUND
NEAR GREENFIELD TOWNSHIP COVERING THE ROAD.
 
IN PUTNAM WV...SEVERAL STREAMS AND CREEKS WERE SLIGHTLY ABOVE BANKFULL.
ANY ADDITIONAL RAIN WILL FURTHER AGGRAVATE THE FLOODING PROBLEMS THERE.
 
HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT HAVE CAUSED NUMEROUS FLOODED ROADWAYS AND SOME
EVACTUATIONS...PARTICULARLY IN WAYNE AND LINCOLN COUNTIES OF WEST
VIRGINIA.
 
A BRIDGE WAS WASHED OUT IN LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY THIS MORNING.  THE
BRIDGE WAS ALONG MORGAN'S CREEK NEAR FALLSBURG.
 
THE RAINFALL WAS WEAKENING SLIGHTLY THIS MORNING.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY `BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WATCH OUT FOR MUD SLIDES.
 
NWSFO CHARLESTON
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 1, 7:12 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXLincoln, Wayne3 hr
Mar 1, 7:49 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson3 hr
Mar 1, 8:16 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXMason5 hr
Mar 1, 8:32 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXMason5 hr
Mar 1, 9:10 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha4 hr
Mar 1, 9:15 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha4 hr
Mar 1, 9:37 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXWayne4 hr
Mar 1, 9:37 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXMason4 hr
Mar 1, 10:15 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXClay, Roane4 hr
Mar 1, 11:37 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXWebster5 hr
Mar 1, 1:50 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXClay, Kanawha, Roane4 hr
Mar 1, 1:50 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson, Mason, Putnam4 hr
Mar 1, 1:50 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXLincoln4 hr
Mar 1, 3:18 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXCalhoun, Gilmer4 hr
Mar 1, 4:13 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXBraxton4 hr
Mar 1, 5:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone, Kanawha33 min
Mar 1, 5:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone, Kanawha30 min
Mar 1, 5:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette49 min
Mar 1, 5:49 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXMason4 hr
Mar 1, 5:49 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson4 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.