Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Feb 18, 2000, 9:54 PM EST for 10 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 4 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
- Feb 18, 2000, 9:54 PM EST (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2000, 2:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Roane County, WV, Upshur County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 190253 FFWRLX BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 954 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000 WVC001-007-013-015-021-039-041-079-087-097-190700- BARBOUR WV-BRAXTON WV-CALHOUN WV-CLAY WV-GILMER WV-KANAWHA WV- LEWIS WV-PUTNAM WV-ROANE WV-UPSHUR WV- 954 PM EST FRI FEB 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CONTINUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... KANAWHA COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... ROANE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 200 AM EST EARLY SATURDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR... BARBOUR COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... BRAXTON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... CALHOUN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... CLAY COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... GILMER COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... LEWIS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... UPSHUR COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 200 AM EST EARLY SATURDAY MORNING... AS OF 945 PM EST FRIDAY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT ONE HALF TO LOCALLY TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE PAST 6 HOURS. WITH RAINFALL CONTINUING...THIS IS ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLOODING OF DITCHES AND CREEKS...AND SMALL STREAMS. WEATHER SPOTTER AND POLICE REPORTS INDICATE THAT SOME ROADS WERE FLOODED AND SOME STREAMS WERE RISING OUT OF THEIR BANKS. ANOTHER ROUND OF HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING THROUGH THIS EVENING. FLOODING ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS WILL LIKELY WORSEN AS THIS RAIN MOVES THROUGH. ANOTHER HALF INCH TO ONE INCH COULD BE EXPECTED BEFORE THE RAIN TAPERS OFF JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. <<CALL TO ACTION>> DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER...STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877N-633-6772. $$ TRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Ritchie | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 8:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.