Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 116, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 1998, 6:50 AM EDT for Perry 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
- Jun 28, 1998, 6:50 AM EDT (10:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1998, 10:55 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:49 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 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
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
Local storm report, Jun 28, 5:41 AM EDT, 1 hour 9 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, 1 hour 1 minute before
IN ATHENS OH, BETWEEN 5:33 AM AND 5:48 AM, FLOODING WAS REPORTED. THIS INCLUDED WATER OVER THE ROAD OR IN BUILDINGS. b
Local storm report, Jun 28, 5:50 AM EDT, 1 hour 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 AMLocal storm report, Jun 28, 5:50 AM EDT, 1 hour 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 AMLocal storm report, Jun 28, 6:37 AM EDT, 13 minutes before
IN CLENDENIN WV, FLOODING WAS REPORTED. THIS INCLUDED WATER OVER THE ROAD OR IN BUILDINGS. b
Local storm report, Jun 28, 6:38 AM EDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0638 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....
UNKNOWN CLENDENIN WV FLOODING
KANAWHA STREAMS OVER ROADS OR
IN BUILDINGS.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, 5:51 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Meigs | 69 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 | 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
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.