Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2000
Flash Flood Warning 52, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2000, 4:10 PM EDT for Lewis 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2000, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lewis County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 815 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KRLX 032012
FFWRLX
WVC041-032215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
410 PM EDT THU AUG 3 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
LEWIS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 615 PM EDT...
* AT 401 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN 13 MILES WEST OF WESTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF
GLENVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ONE TO TWO INCHES HAS FALLEN
ACROSS NORTHERN LEWIS COUNTY OVER THE PAST HOUR. ANOTHER ONE TO
TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS EXPECTED THROUGH 530 PM. THIS WILL CAUSE FLASH
FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS IN THE AREA.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE CHURCHVILLE...
BUTCHERVILLE... AND JANE LEW.
<<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 3913 8069 3899 8069 3879 8042 3901 8035
3909 80=33 3915 8059The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Doddridge | 20 min |
| Aug 3, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lewis | 41 min |
| Aug 3, 3:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Ritchie | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 6:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wirt | 83 min |
| Aug 3, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 22 min |
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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.