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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Charleston, WV
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.
- 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 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 .END/NMB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 9:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Kanawha and 4 more | 4 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.