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Flash Flood Warning 79, NWS Charleston, WV

June 19, 1998Barbour County, Harrison County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1998, 7:16 AM EDT for Barbour County, Harrison 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, 7:16 AM EDT (11:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1998, 10:25 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Barbour County, WV, Harrison County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1998-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 261 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 1998-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 3 hours 27 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 AM
Local storm report, Jun 19, 4:25 AM EDT, 2 hours 51 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 AM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 3:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXHarrison, Lewis45 min
Jun 19, 3:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour, Taylor62 min
Jun 19, 4:16 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBarbour, Harrison3 hr
Jun 19, 5:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXTyler2 hr
Jun 19, 6:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXDoddridge, Lewis, Upshur3 hr
Jun 19, 6:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph3 hr
Jun 19, 6:08 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXTaylor3 hr
Jun 19, 6:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette, Nicholas61 min
Jun 19, 7:16 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas, Webster3 hr
Jun 19, 7:16 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBarbour, Harrison3 hr
Jun 19, 7:16 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas, Webster3 hr
Jun 19, 9:15 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXHarrison, Lewis2 hr
Jun 19, 9:15 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph2 hr
Jun 19, 9:30 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXUpshur2 hr
Jun 19, 10:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas, Webster2 hr
Jun 19, 11:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXDoddridge, Tyler3 hr
Jun 19, 11:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXHarrison, Lewis, Upshur3 hr
Jun 19, 11:20 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph3 hr
Jun 19, 1:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWebster3 hr
Jun 19, 1:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBraxton19 hr
Jun 19, 1:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXDoddridge, Tyler12 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.