Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 41, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1998, 8:13 AM EDT for Buchanan County, Virginia. It was in force for 2 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
- Jun 10, 1998, 8:13 AM EDT (12:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 10:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buchanan County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -423 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1203 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 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 101214 FFWCRW VAC027-101415- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 813 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED A FLOOD WARNING NOW EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ...BUCHANAN COUNTY AT 808 AM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RECEIVED REPORTS THAT THE HIGH WATER ON AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS HAS STARTED TO RECEDE. HOWEVER...MORE MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN WILL DELAY THIS PROCESS... AND COULD LEAD TO MORE FLOODING. THE HARDEST HIT AREAS WERE AROUND WHITEWOOD AND ALONG SLATE CREEK. HARRIS BRANCH HOLLOW IS INACCESIBLE DUE TO HIGH WATER AND PORTIONS OF THE BOYD TRAILER PARK HAVE BEEN FLOODED. << 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 QUICKLYv. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WATCH OUT FOR MUD SLIDES. .END/BELK &
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
Local storm report, Jun 10, 4:08 AM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
408 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 AM BARTLICK VA .88 INCH HAIL
06/10/98 DICKENSON 1.5 SW
0216 AM WEST DANTE VA 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/10/98 DICKENSON
0220 AM GALLIA OH 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/10/98 GALLIA GREENFIELD TOWNSHIP
0230 AM GETAWAY OH WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 LAWRENCE TREES DOWN ALONG MCKINNEY
CREEK AND CO RD 36
0255 AM APPLE GROVE WV .75 INCH HAIL
06/10/98 MASONLocal storm report, Jun 10, 6:39 AM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
639 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0540 AM RANGER WV 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/10/98 LINCOLN GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED.The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 1:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Dickenson | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 4:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 7:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Dickenson | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in 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.