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Flash Flood Warning 29, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 1, 1998, 7:52 PM EDT for Gallia County, Meigs 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
- May 1, 1998, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1998, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gallia County, OH, Meigs County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 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 012350 FFWCRW OHC053-105-020400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 752 PM EDT FRI MAY 1 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S... IN SOUTHEAST OHIO ...NORTHERN GALLIA COUNTY...WESTERN MEIGS COUNTY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEPOSITED BETWEEN A HALF INCH AND AN INCH OF RAIN BETWEEN 6:30 AND 7:30 PM. THE GROUND WAS ALREADY SATURATED FROM THE RAINS OF WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. IN GALLIA COUNTY...STREAMS SUCH AS CAMPAIGN CREEK...STRONGS RUN...AND RACOON CREEK WILL LIKELY OVERFLOW IN THE MOST VULNERABLE LOCATIONS THIS EVENING. THIS IS IN THE MORGAN CENTER AND VINTON VICINITIES. IN MEIGS COUNTY...SMALL TRIBUTARIES OF LEADING CREEK...AROUND RUTLAND... LANGSVILLE...DEXTER ARE PRIME FOR FLOODING. << CALL TO ACTION >> BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
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
Special weather statement, May 1, 7:05 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
WVZ007-008-014>016-OHZ085-086-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 705 PM EDT FRI MAY 1 1998 AT 7 O'CLOCK...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST... THROUGH THE GALLIA COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST OHIO...PLUS THE LOWER KANAWHA VALLEY COUNTIES OF MASON...PUTNAM...AND KANAWHA IN WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. BRIEF DOWNPOURS ARE LIKELY. A HALF OF AN INCH OF RAIN COULD FALL IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES. THIS WOULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW ROAD VISIBILITY FOR MOTORISTS. SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THESE PARTICULAR SHOWERS WILL MOVE INTO MEIGS COUNTY OHIO...PLUS JACKSON AND ROANE COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA FOR THE 8 TO 9 O'CLOCK HOUR. THIS WOULD INCLUDE AREAS NEAR POMEROY...RAVENSWOOD...RIPLEY... AND SPENCER. END / KTB / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
Special weather statement, May 1, 7:05 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
WVZ007-008-014>016-OHZ085-086-020000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 705 PM EDT FRI MAY 1 1998 AT 7 O'CLOCK...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST... THROUGH THE GALLIA COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST OHIO...PLUS THE LOWER KANAWHA VALLEY COUNTIES OF MASON...PUTNAM...AND KANAWHA IN WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. BRIEF DOWNPOURS ARE LIKELY. A HALF OF AN INCH OF RAIN COULD FALL IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES. THIS WOULD CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW ROAD VISIBILITY FOR MOTORISTS. SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THESE PARTICULAR SHOWERS WILL MOVE INTO MEIGS COUNTY OHIO...PLUS JACKSON AND ROANE COUNTIES IN WEST VIRGINIA FOR THE 8 TO 9 O'CLOCK HOUR. THIS WOULD INCLUDE AREAS NEAR POMEROY...RAVENSWOOD...RIPLEY... AND SPENCER. END / KTB / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
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.