Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998

Flash Flood Warning 33, NWS Charleston, WV

May 10, 1998Fayette County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 1998, 2:44 PM EDT for Fayette 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
May 10, 1998, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1998, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Fayette County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1998-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1998-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
764 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 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 101848
FFWCRW
WVC019-043-102145-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FOR TIMES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
244 PM EDT SUN MAY 10 1998
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY
 
IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA
 
   ...LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 240 PM...AN AUTOMATED RAIN GUAGE ON GAULEY MOUNTAIN REPORTED NEARLY AINCH AND A HALF OF RAIN IN ONE HOUR. THIS IS ENOUGH TO CAUSE SOME FLASH
FLOODING ALONG CREEKS AND STREAMS NEAR HAWKS NEST STATE PARK...ANSTED...
DCHIMNEY CORNER.
 
IN ADDITION...RADAR INDICATED THAT A THUNDERSTORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY
OVER LINCOLN COUNTY NEAR SPURLOCKVILLE AND SOUTHEAST OF PALERMO.
RAINFALL OF NEARLY TWO INCHES IN AN HOUR WILL CAUSE RAPID FLASH FLOODING
IN THIS AREA AND AREAS DOWNSTREAM.
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS
OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.  MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS 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
ONE6...ON FOOT.  TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 2:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXLincoln3 hr
May 10, 3:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBoone3 hr

Nearby

Flash 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.