Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Mar 21, 1998, 4:12 AM EST for Fayette County, Kanawha County, Roane County, West Virginia. 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
- Mar 21, 1998, 4:12 AM EST (09:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 21, 1998, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Roane County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 210914 FFWCRW WVC019-047-039-087-211202- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 412 AM EST SAT MAR 21 1998...CORRECTION THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED THE FLOOD WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED UNTIL 700 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...WESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY...MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA ...EASTERN KANAWHA COUNTY...ROANE COUNTY THE RAIN HAS DECREASED ACROSS THESE COUNTIES...FLOODING CONTINUES ALONG SEVERAL SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE AREAS. FLOODING IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL MORE HOURS BEFORE THE WATER RECEDES. FLOODING CONTINUES AT BLUE CREEK BETWEEN ELKVIEW AND CLENDENIN IN KANAWHA COUNTY. ALSO...BELLE AND PAINT CREEKS ARE OVERFLOWING IN WESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY. BIG LICK CREEK BETWEEN WALTON AND GANDEEVILLE WAS BLOCKED ON U. S. 119...BLOCKED IN FOUR DIFFERENT PLACES IN ROANE COUTNTY...SPRING AND REEDY CREEKS IN THE SPENCER AND REEDY AREAS CONTINUTO OVER LOW. COUNTY ROUTE ROUTE 83 BETWEEN WAR AND BRADSHAW...83/41 RIV ROAD AND SOME OF THE HOLLOWS ARE BLOCKED DUE TO HIGH WATER OR WATER IS FLOWING ACROSS THESE ROADS IN MCDOWELL COUNTY. << CALL TO ACTION >> 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. WHITEHEAD CORRECTED TO CLARIFY THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF A PREVIOUS WARNING...AND NOT A NEW WARNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 7:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay, Fayette, Kanawha | 4 hr |
| Mar 20, 7:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Roane | 4 hr |
| Mar 20, 8:41 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Webster | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 11:23 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 4 hr |
| Mar 21, 12:32 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette, Kanawha, Roane | 3 hr |
| Mar 21, 4:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Roane | 3 hr |
| Mar 21, 4:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Mar 21, 4:02 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 3 hr |
| Mar 21, 4:12 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 3 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.