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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV

January 7, 1998Lawrence County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jan 7, 1998, 6:31 PM EST for Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was in force for 6 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 7, 1998, 6:31 PM EST (23:31 UTC)
Expired
Jan 8, 1998, 12:30 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Lawrence County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-01-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1998-01-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 072333
FFWCRW
KYC019-043-089-127-OHC009-079-087-115-127-163-080530-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
631 PM EST WED JAN 7 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST KENTUCKY
 
   ...BOYD COUNTY...CARTER COUNTY...GREENUP COUNTY
   ...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTHEAST OHIO
 
   ...ATHENS COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY
   ...MORGAN COUNTY...PERRY COUNTY...VINTON COUNTY
 
AT 625 PM...COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS IN
THE WARNING AREA WERE AT BANKFULL LEVELS. RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE
EVENING HOURS...AND WILL OCCASIONALLY BE HEAVY...PUSHING SMALLER STREAMS
AND CREEKS OUT OF THEIR BANKS.
 
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> MOST DEATHS IN FLASH FLOODING OCCUR IN AUTOMOBIL
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY.  NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A
SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. DO NOT DRIVE AROUND POLICE BARRICADES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 7, 6:31 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXBoyd, Carter, Greenup6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 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.