Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 47, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 2000, 6:44 PM EDT for Pocahontas 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 31, 2000, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pocahontas County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 376 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KRLX 312245
FFWRLX
WVC075-010145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
644 PM EDT MON JUL 31 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
POCAHONTAS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 945 PM EDT...
* AT 639 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY IN POCAHONTAS COUNTY. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD AT 20 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATED
THAT SOME LOCATIONS HAVE RECEIVED UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL IN
AN HOUR.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE GREENBANK...CASS
SCENIC RAILROAD....AND MARLINTON.
<<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.
$$
LAT...LON 3867 7962 3866 7978 3858 7979 3845 8004
3835 8030 3811 8032 3807 8023 3809 7997
3819 7992 3826 7980 3835 7980 3837 7973
3843, 7969 3851 7969The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 9:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 111 min |
| Jul 31, 10:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 117 min |
| Jul 31, 2:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Barbour | 119 min |
| Jul 31, 2:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 118 min |
| Jul 31, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2000Every 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.