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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Charleston, WV

July 31, 2000Barbour County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2000, 2:01 PM EDT for Barbour County, West Virginia. It was in force for 119 min. 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 31, 2000, 2:01 PM EDT (18:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Barbour County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 2000-07-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 618 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 2000-07-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 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
618 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 311803
FFWRLX
WVC001-312000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
201 PM EDT MON JUL 31 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT...

* AT 159 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED 1.5 TO 2
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER EXTREME NORTHEASTERN BARBOUR COUNTY
SINCE AROUND 100 PM.  ANOTHER 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IS EXPECTED
THROUGH 4 PM.  THIS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND
STREAMS IN THE VICINITY OF THE TYGART RIVER.

.

<<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 NATIONAL4
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.

$$

LAT...LON 3929 7996 3924 7999 3918 7996 3913 7989
          3916 7983 3923 7982 3926 7986 3929 7989

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 9:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWyoming111 min
Jul 31, 10:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWayne117 min
Jul 31, 2:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph118 min
Jul 31, 4:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRandolph2 hr
Jul 31, 6:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas3 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.