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Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Charleston, WV

July 30, 2000Boone County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 2000, 5:52 PM EDT for Boone 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 30, 2000, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Boone County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 287 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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 302153
FFWRLX
WVC005-310045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
552 PM EDT SUN JUL 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BOONE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT...

* AT 550 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING REPEATEDLY OVER BOONE COUNTY.
  RADAR ESTIMATES THAT SOME PORTIONS OF BOONE COUNTY HAVE
  RECEIVED OVER ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR.

.

<<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...877-633-6772.

$$

LAT...LON 3778 8157 3795 8157 3803 8147 3811 8153
          3818 8165 3822 8165 3823 8172 3814 8193
          3805 8196 3803 8189 3797 8195 3794 8179
          3785 8174 3783 8164

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 30, 3:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 3:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

WVZ005>011-013>020-024>040-046-047-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-
KYZ101>103-105-VAZ003-004-310830-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
359 PM EDT SUN JUL 30 2000

PERSISTENCE FORECAST RULES FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS.  WILL GRADUALLY
SLACK OFF ON THE POPS INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK AS UPPER LEVEL
SYSTEM DISSIPATES TO THE WEST.

WILL GO PERSISTENCE WITH TEMPERATURES THE NEXT 36 HOURS AND A BIT
WARMER ON TUESDAY.

.RLX...
WV...NONE.
VA...NONE.
KY...NONE.
OH...NONE.

.END / BELK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 5:41 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

WVZ006-013-014-302200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
541 PM EDT SUN JUL 30 2000

...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS FALLING ONCE AGAIN...

AT 538 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SMALL
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING RAINFALL AT A RATE OF ONE HALF TO THREE
QUARTERS OF AN INCH PER HOUR.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING OVER AN AREA
THAT RECEIVED LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OF ONE AND ONE HALF TO TWO INCHES
SATURDAY NIGHT.

STRONG RISES ON THE SMALLER STREAMS AND CREEKS IS EXPECTED AS WELL
AS POOR DRAINAGE NUISANCE FLOODING.

THE COMMUNITIES MOST LIKELY TO BE AFFECTED BY THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL
BE THOSE FROM HAMLIN...TO CULLODEN...TO ELEANOR.

STAY TUNWED TO LOCAL MEDIA...WEATHER RADIO OR THE INTERNET FOR
FURTHER UPDATES REGARDING THIS STORM.

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

.END/BELK

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, 10:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Cabell, Lincoln, Putnam	3 hr
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, 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

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 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.