Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000

Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Charleston, WV

February 18, 200010 counties in West Virginia

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2000-02-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2000-02-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 19, 2:15 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXRitchie6 hr
Feb 19, 3:00 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha6 hr
Feb 19, 8:45 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2000Every flash flood warning in 2000

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.