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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Charleston, WV

June 17, 2000Morgan County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 17, 2000, 12:33 AM EDT for Morgan County, Ohio. It was in force for 117 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 2000, 12:33 AM EDT (04:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 2000, 2:30 AM EDT
In force
117 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Morgan County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2000-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 550 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2000-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
550 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
750 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 170441 COR
FFWRLX
OHC115-170630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED FIPS CODE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1233 AM EDT SAT JUN 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MORGAN COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 230 AM EDT...

* AT 1230 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR ESTIMATED 4 TO 5
  INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER NORTHEAST MORGAN COUNTY.  WITH MORE
  RAIN MOVING INTO THE AREA...FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST
  OR WORSEN.

<<CALL TO ACTION>> BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER
TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH
FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE
FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER
BEGINS RISING.

PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER...HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.

LAT...LON 3969 8203 3954 8197 3964 8164 3975 8165
          3977 8192


.END/BELK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 10:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMorgan, Perry2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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.