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Flash Flood Warning 110, NWS Charleston, WV

June 28, 1998Meigs County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1998, 5:51 AM EDT for Meigs County, Ohio. It was in force for 69 min. 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 28, 1998, 5:51 AM EDT (09:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1998, 7:00 AM EDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Meigs County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:56 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 158 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 238 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 11.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 280952
FFWCRW
OHC105-281100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
551 AM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MEIGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO.

* UNTIL 700 AM EDT.

* AT 549 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OVER THE SAME AREA IN EASTERN MEIGS
  COUNTY.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* CONTINUING RAINFALL WILL RESULT IN STRONG RAPID RISES ON THE
  SMALLER STREAMS AND CREEKS.  THE BRANCHES OF THE SHADE RIVER
  WILL BE MOST AFFECTED.

<<<CALL TO ACTION>>>BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS
HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF FLOODING.

PLEASE REPORT ANY HIGH WATER OR FLOODING BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT
877-633-6772.

.END/BELK

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

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:10 AM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0410 AM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0352 AM    WALKER                    WV   FLOODING
06/28/98   WOOD                           STREAMS OVER ROADS OR
                                          IN BUILDINGS.
                                          EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0337 AM  AND  0352 AM

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:33 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
433 AM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0300 AM                              WV   FLOODING
06/28/98   TYLER                          NUMEROUS STREAMS
                                          OVERFLOWED IN COUNTY.
                                          EVACUATIONS ALONG WILLOW
                                          FORK EAST OF SISTERSVILLE.
                                          MORE EVACUATIONS LIKELY.

0400 AM                              WV   FLOODING
06/28/98   WOOD                           STILLWELL AND WALKER
                                          CREEKS CAUSING EVACUATIONS

Local storm report, Jun 28, 5:41 AM EDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
541 AM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0530 AM                              WV   FLOODING
06/28/98   CALHOUN                        EVACUATIONS IN PHILIPS RUN
                                          AREA SOUTH OF GRANTSVILLE,
                                          BRIDGE WASHED OUT ALONG
                                          CHERRY FORK.  DANIELS FORK
                                          FLOODING.

Local storm report, Jun 28, 5:49 AM EDT, 2 minutes before

IN ATHENS                    OH, BETWEEN  5:33 AM AND  5:48 AM,
FLOODING WAS REPORTED. THIS INCLUDED WATER OVER THE ROAD OR IN BUILDINGS.
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Local storm report, Jun 28, 5:50 AM EDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0550 AM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0548 AM    ATHENS                    OH   FLOODING
06/28/98   ATHENS                         STREAMS OVER ROADS OR
                                          IN BUILDINGS.
                                          EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0533 AM  AND  0548 AM

Local storm report, Jun 28, 5:50 AM EDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0550 AM EDT SUN JUN 28 1998

THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0548 AM    ATHENS                    OH   FLOODING
06/28/98   ATHENS                         STREAMS OVER ROADS OR
                                          IN BUILDINGS.
                                          EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
                                          0533 AM  AND  0548 AM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	47 min
Jun 27, 8:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Athens	34 min
Jun 27, 11:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	3 hr
Jun 28, 12:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	33 min
Jun 28, 2:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Washington	31 min
Jun 28, 2:34 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Morgan, Washington	4 hr
Jun 28, 4:52 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	2 hr
Jun 28, 5:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens	100 min
Jun 28, 6:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs	4 hr
Jun 28, 6:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	4 hr
Jun 28, 6:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs	4 hr
Jun 28, 6:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	4 hr
Jun 28, 7:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	4 hr
Jun 28, 11:09 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Perry, Washington	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:09 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Meigs, Washington	5 hr
Jun 28, 11:09 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	5 hr
Jun 28, 5:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Washington	5 hr
Jun 28, 5:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	5 hr
Jun 28, 5:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Meigs	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.