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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Charleston, WV

June 15, 1998Clay County, Nicholas County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1998, 2:27 AM EDT for Clay County, Nicholas County, West Virginia. 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, 2:27 AM EDT (06:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 1998, 7:30 AM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clay County, WV, Nicholas County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-15Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1062 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
281 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 150627
FFWCRW
WVC015-067-151130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA.
  NICHOLAS COUNTY IN CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA.

* UNTIL 730 AM EDT.

* AT 225 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN CROSSING THESE COUNTIES...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CROSSED THESE COUNTIES...PRODUCING
  SEVERAL ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL
  ESTIMATES THAT UP TO 1.5 INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST 2
  HOURS...ONTO AN ALREADY SATURDATED GROUND.

<<<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, 11:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne60 min
Jun 15, 12:16 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMason5 hr
Jun 15, 12:43 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXCabell5 hr
Jun 15, 1:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha4 hr
Jun 15, 1:36 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXLincoln4 hr
Jun 15, 1:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPutnam3 hr
Jun 15, 1:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBoone4 hr
Jun 15, 1:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXFayette4 hr
Jun 15, 3:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXHarrison, Taylor3 hr
Jun 15, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMason62 min
Jun 15, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMcDowell49 min
Jun 15, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone47 min
Jun 15, 4:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson2 hr
Jun 15, 5:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRoane2 hr
Jun 15, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton33 min
Jun 15, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton38 min
Jun 15, 6:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMason3 hr
Jun 15, 6:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXTaylor3 hr
Jun 15, 6:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXCalhoun, Gilmer3 hr
Jun 15, 7:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson3 hr
Jun 15, 7:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXHarrison3 hr
Jun 15, 7:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXClay3 hr
Jun 15, 7:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXUpshur, Webster2 hr
Jun 15, 7:50 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBraxton2 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.