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Flash Flood Warning 94, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 1998, 12:17 AM EDT for Ritchie 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 27, 1998, 12:17 AM EDT (04:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1998, 3:20 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ritchie County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:18 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1194 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 270418 FFWCRW WVC085-270720- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1217 AM EDT SAT JUN 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RITCHIE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA. * UNTIL 320 AM EDT. * AT CHARLESTON RADAR ESTIMATES HAVE INDICATED HEAVY RAINS OVER RICHIE COUNTY...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * <<<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/SIKORA
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 26, 6:33 PM EDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
0633 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0616 PM FRIENDLY WV 1.50 INCH HAIL
06/26/98 TYLER EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
0601 PM AND 0616 PMLocal storm report, Jun 26, 7:35 PM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
735 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0712 PM MINERAL OH WIND DAMAGE
06/26/98 ATHENS TREES DOWN. ONE TREE BLOWN
ACROSS STATE RTE 56 NORTH
OF MINERAL.Local storm report, Jun 26, 10:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
1050 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998
THE FOLLOWING REPORTS ARE UNOFFICIAL AND MAY HAVE BEEN COLLECTED
FROM UNTRAINED SOURCES
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1102 PM BUCKHANNON WV PEA SIZE HAIL
06/26/98 UPSHUR EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
1047 PM AND 1102 PM
1123 PM LOWER SALEM OH FLOODING
06/26/98 WASHINGTON STREAMS OVER ROADS OR
IN BUILDINGS.
EVENT OCCURRED BETWEEN
1108 PM AND 1123 PMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Harrison | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Tyler | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Ritchie | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 10:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wood | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gilmer, Lewis | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 10:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Upshur | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 10:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 10:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Barbour, Randolph | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 11:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 11:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 11:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Ritchie | 35 min |
| Jun 27, 12:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Gilmer | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 1:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 37 min |
| Jun 27, 1:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 3 hr |
| Jun 27, 10:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Tyler | 36 min |
| Jun 27, 10:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pleasants | 35 min |
| Jun 27, 10:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge, Harrison | 50 min |
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.