Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2000, 10:46 PM EDT for Cabell County, Lincoln County, Putnam County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 2000, 10:46 PM EDT (02:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2000, 1:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabell County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Putnam County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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 190 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
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 300248 FFWRLX WVC011-043-079-300545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1046 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... EASTERN CABELL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... PUTNAM COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 145 AM EDT... * AT 1042 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT VERY HEAVY RAIN HEAVY RAIN HAD FALLEN OVER THE AREA. RADAR INDICATES THAT SOME LOCATION HAVE RECEIVED OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN FROM RECENT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WINFIELD AND HAMLIN. <<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 IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER...HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 16 min |
| Jul 29, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Jul 29, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 27 min |
| Jul 29, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 30 min |
| Jul 29, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 51 min |
| Jul 29, 10:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 4:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 4:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 5:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 5:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 5:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 6:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 6:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Raleigh, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 6:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Roane | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 7:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 7:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.