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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 30, 2000, 6:27 PM EDT for Kanawha County, Roane 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, 6:27 PM EDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kanawha County, WV, Roane County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KRLX 302228
FFWRLX
WVC039-087-310130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
627 PM EDT SUN JUL 30 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
KANAWHA COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
ROANE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 930 PM EDT...
* AT 621 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN MOVING OVER PORTIONS OF KANAWHA AND ROANE COUNTIES. SOME LOCATIONS
HAVE RECIEVED OVER ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAINFALL IN AN HOUR.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SPENCER...NITRO AND
CHARLESTON.
<<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 3833 8188 3829 8180 3823 8180 3824 8164
3798 8139 3816 8134 3826 8124 3849 8129
3858 8111 3891 8127 3890 8149 3863 8149
3846 8170 3841 8186The 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, 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, 7:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 7:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Harrison | 4 hr |
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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.