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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Charleston, WV

July 10, 2000Gallia County, Vinton County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2000, 5:13 PM EDT for Gallia County, Vinton 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, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Gallia County, OH, Vinton County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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 102113
FFWRLX
OHC053-163-102315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN GALLIA COUNTY IN OHIO...
  SOUTHERN VINTON COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT...

* AT 510 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF VINTON...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  RIO GRANDE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WILKESVILLE.

<<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...HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...87}7-633-6772.

LAT...LON 3890 8242 3886 8215 3901 8210 3902 8233
          3916 8232 3919 8240

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, 4:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Jackson	2 hr
Jul 10, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	28 min
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

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.