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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Charleston, WV

June 15, 1998Carter County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1998, 12:06 AM EDT for Carter County, Kentucky. It was in force for 5 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 15, 1998, 12:06 AM EDT (04:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1998, 5:15 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Carter County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 98 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
98 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 150407 COR
FFWCRW
KYC043-150910-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1206 AM EDT MON JUN 15 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CARTER COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY.

* UNTIL 515 AM EDT.

* AT 1203 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CARTER COUNTY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THUNDERSTORMS ARE REDEVELOPING OVER CARTER COUNTY AND MOVING
NORTHEAST.   DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES UP TO 1.75 INCHES OF RAINFALL
IN ONE HOUR.

<<<CALL TO ACTION>>>DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE
ROAD!

PLEASE REPORT ANY HIGH WATER OR FLOODING BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT
877-633-6772.

.END/NMB/JMV

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 10:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence49 min
Jun 14, 11:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXGreenup5 hr
Jun 14, 11:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXGreenup5 hr
Jun 15, 12:16 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBoyd5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.