Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000

Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Charleston, WV

July 10, 2000Lawrence County, Kentucky; Mingo County, Wayne County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 10, 2000, 10:49 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Kentucky; Mingo County, Wayne County, West Virginia. 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, 10:49 PM EDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Lawrence County, KY, Mingo County, WV, Wayne County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:52 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 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 1714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 110251
FFWRLX
KYC127-WVC059-099-110500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1049 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY...
  NORTHERN MINGO COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  EXTREME SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 100 AM EDT...

* AT 1042 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT 2
  TO 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS FALLEN OVER THE AREA OVER THE PAST
  SEVERAL HOURS.  ADDITONAL RAINFALL OF AN INCH OR MORE IS
  EXPECTED...WHICH WILL CAUSE SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS TO RISE ABOVE
  THEIR BANKS.

.

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

LAT...LON 3768 8223 3779 8212 3806 8225 3799 8238
          3807 8258 3825 8271 3803 8299 3790 8246

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 8:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Greenup	96 min
Jul 10, 9:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boyd	21 min
Jul 10, 10:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell	84 min
Jul 10, 10:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	McDowell	33 min
Jul 10, 11:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell	114 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2000 Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 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.