Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT for Nicholas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Nicholas County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 792 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 162301 FFWRLX WVC067-170100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 700 PM EDT SUN APR 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NICHOLAS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 900 PM EDT... RADAR INDICATED SOME NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS IN NICHOLAS COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL AT 7 PM WAS LOCATED NEAR MOUNT NEBO...POOL...RUNA AND FOWLER KNOB. SOME STREAMS THAT MAY BE AFFECTED BY FLASH FLOODING ARE COLLISION CREEK...JERRY FORK...AND MEADOW CREEK. RADAR ESTIMATED UP TO ONE AND THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN NICHOLAS COUNTY. <<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 WAoTER...HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772. LAT...LON 3825 8096 3811 8082 3824 8061 3848 8079 NNNN .END/NMB/RPY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 29 min |
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.