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Flash Flood Warning 83, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 1998, 9:30 AM EDT for Upshur County, West 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 19, 1998, 9:30 AM EDT (13:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Upshur County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:31 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 191330 FFWCRW WVC097-191530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 930 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS REISSUED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... UPSHUR COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 1130 AM EDT. * THE RAIN WAS ENDING ACROSS UPSHUR COUNTY 925 AM EDT... HOWEVER RUNOFF CONTINUES AND STREAMS AND CREEKS CONTINUE TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD LEVELS. <<<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, 5 hours 41 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, 5 hours 5 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 AMSpecial weather statement, Jun 19, 7:54 AM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-KYZ101-102-191300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 754 AM EDT FRI JUN 19 1998 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST OHIO OR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED. END/HTK
The 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, 6:08 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Taylor | 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, 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.