Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jan 9, 1998, 12:22 AM EST for 5 counties in Ohio; Wood County, 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
- Jan 9, 1998, 12:22 AM EST (05:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 1998, 4:30 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Athens County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Washington County, OH, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:23 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 090527 FFWCRW OHC009-105-115-127-167-WVC107-090900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1222 AM EST FRI JAN 9 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...ATHENS COUNTY...MEIGS COUNTY...MORGAN COUNTY...PERRY COUNTY ...WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WEST VIRGINIA ...WOOD COUNTY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PUSH NORTH THROUGH THIS AREA THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS. THE GROUND IS NEAR SATURATION AND HEAVY RAIN WILL RUN OFF RAPIDLY. STREAMS ARE ALREADY RUNNING WELL ABOVE NORMAL AND WILL OVEFLOW QUICKLY DURING AND SHORTLY AFTER HEAVY RAIN. RAINFALL OF ONE HALF INCH IN AN HOUR OF LESS WILL BEGIN FLOODING. << CALL TO ACTION >> BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS OBSERxVED... ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. ZINN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 9:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 40 min |
| Jan 8, 10:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia | 48 min |
| Jan 8, 11:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Meigs | 31 min |
| Jan 9, 12:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Washington | 54 min |
| Jan 8, 10:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 54 min |
| Jan 8, 10:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 48 min |
| Jan 8, 11:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 53 min |
| Jan 8, 11:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RLX | Wood | 19 min |
| Jan 9, 1:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 34 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 1998Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 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.