Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 76, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1998, 6:08 AM EDT for Taylor 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
- Jun 19, 1998, 6:08 AM EDT (10:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 9:10 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:08 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 261 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 191009 FFWCRW WVC017-041-083-091-097-191310- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 608 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... DODDRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. LEWIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA. TAYLOR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. UPSHUR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 910 AM EDT. * AT 605 AM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE ONCE AGAIN TRACKING OVER THESE COUNTIES. EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS HAD PRODUCED LOCALLY 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN. A FEW LOCATIONS WILL LIKELY RECEIVE 1 TO 2 INCHES FROM THESE STORMS AS WELL. <<<CALL TO ACTION>>>DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADS! MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. PLEASE REPORT ANY HIGH WATER OR FLOODING BY CALLING TOLL FREE AT 877-633-6772. .END/>MJS
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 19, 3:49 AM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0349 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0348 AM WEST MILFORD WV .50 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 HARRISON EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0333 AM AND 0348 AM
0420 AM PHILIPPI WV WIND DAMAGE
06/19/98 BARBOUR LARGE BRANCHES BROKEN.
EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0405 AM AND 0420 AMLocal storm report, Jun 19, 4:25 AM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0349 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0348 AM WEST MILFORD WV .50 INCH HAIL
06/19/98 HARRISON EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0333 AM AND 0348 AM
0420 AM PHILIPPI WV WIND DAMAGE
06/19/98 BARBOUR LARGE BRANCHES BROKEN.
EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0405 AM AND 0420 AMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 3:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison, Lewis | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 3:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Taylor | 62 min |
| Jun 19, 4:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 5:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Lewis, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 6:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 7:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Harrison | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Webster | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 9:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Lewis | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 9:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 9:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Upshur | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 10:40 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Webster | 2 hr |
| Jun 19, 11:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Tyler | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 11:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison, Lewis, Upshur | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 11:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 1:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 3 hr |
| Jun 19, 1:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton | 19 hr |
| Jun 19, 1:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Tyler | 12 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.