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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV

February 19, 2000Ritchie County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Feb 19, 2000, 2:15 AM EST for Ritchie County, West Virginia. It was in force for 6 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
Feb 19, 2000, 2:15 AM EST (07:15 UTC)
Expired
Feb 19, 2000, 8:00 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Ritchie County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 190715
FFWRLX
WVC085-191300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
215 AM EST SAT FEB 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  RITCHIE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 800 AM EST...

* HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS THE AREA AND RUNOFF IS REACHING
AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS...AND HAS PRODUCED RAPID RISES.

AS OF 2 AM...THE RITCHIE COUNTY WARNING POINT REPORTED THAT HEAVY
RAINS HAD PRODUCED SOME EROSION ON AN EARTHEN DAM ON THE HUGHES
RIVER...IN THE NORTH BEND STATE PARK AREA.

AS OF 2 AM...ENGINEERS HAD DETERMINED THAT EROSION HAD ALREADY
REACHED A PEAK...AND FURTHER EROSION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
HOWEVER...WATER THAT WAS RELEASED FROM THIS DAM EXACERBATED THE
FLOODING THAT IS ALREADY GOING ON DOWNSTREAM OF THE DAM.
EVACUATIONS WERE OCCURRING DOWNSTREAM IN THE CAIRO AREA AS OF 2 AM.

OTHER AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN HIGH THROUGH
MUCH OF THE NIGHT.

<<CALL TO ACTION>> A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS
IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD
TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY
FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMSMEDIATELY
AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

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

LAT...LON 3919 8125 3907 8107 3920 8098 3927 8107

NNNN

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 18, 9:54 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningRLXBarbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Kanawha and 4 more4 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.