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Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Charleston, WV

July 10, 2000Jackson County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2000, 4:40 PM EDT for Jackson County, Ohio. 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 outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2000, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Jackson County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 102042
FFWRLX
OHC079-102245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
440 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT...

* AT 434 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED 1.5 TO 2
INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTY IN THE PAST HOUR.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF AN INCH OR MORE IS POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT
HOUR.  AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS ARE LIKELY TO OVERFLOW THEIR BANKS.

.

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

LAT...LON 3907 8277 3893 8257 3891 8254 3891 8247
          3895 8245 3911 8244 3918 8274

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 6:04 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Perry	3 hr
Jul 10, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Vinton	32 min
Jul 10, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	22 min
Jul 10, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	28 min
Jul 10, 5:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia, Vinton	2 hr
Jul 10, 6:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	3 hr
Jul 10, 7:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	20 min
Jul 10, 7:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Washington	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2000 Every 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.