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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Charleston, WV

July 10, 2000Pleasants County, West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2000, 7:10 PM EDT for Pleasants County, West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 20 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
Jul 10, 2000, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
20 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Washington County, OH, Pleasants County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 12:00Z on 2000-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 172 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 102310
FFWRLX
OHC167-WVC073-102330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN OHIO...
  PLEASANTS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT...

* HEAVY RAINFALL HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE REGION WITHIN THE PAST HOUR.
  THIS RAIN FELL OVER AREAS THAT HAD ALREADY SEEN HEAVY RAIN EARLIER
  TODAY.  STRONG RISES ARE EXPECTED ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE BELMONT...
  MATAMORAS...LOWER SALEM AND LOWELL.

<<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 3963 8145 3958 8146 3950 8155 3929 8125
          3937 8103 3944 8103 3947 8105 3946 8111
          3949 8111 3953 8105 3957 8105 3959 8139

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRitchie18 min
Jul 10, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGilmer23 min
Jul 10, 2:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson40 min
Jul 10, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTaylor31 min
Jul 10, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoane38 min
Jul 10, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLewis25 min
Jul 10, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPutnam42 min
Jul 10, 3:45 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXPutnam15 min
Jul 10, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha35 min
Jul 10, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln39 min
Jul 10, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone32 min
Jul 10, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRaleigh45 min
Jul 10, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha, Roane30 min
Jul 10, 6:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMingo41 min
Jul 10, 7:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPleasants2 hr
Jul 10, 7:19 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXMingo26 min
Jul 10, 6:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPerry3 hr
Jul 10, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Vinton32 min
Jul 10, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Jackson22 min
Jul 10, 4:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXJackson2 hr
Jul 10, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Jackson28 min
Jul 10, 5:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXGallia, Vinton2 hr
Jul 10, 6:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXGallia, Jackson3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2000Flash 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.