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Flash Flood Warning 60, NWS Charleston, WV

August 9, 2000Buchanan County, Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2000, 11:19 PM EDT for Buchanan County, 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: Aug 9, 2000, 11:19 PM EDT (03:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2000, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Buchanan County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2748 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 100325
FFWRLX
VAC027-100615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1119 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  BUCHANAN COUNTY IN VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 215 AM EDT...

* AT 1118 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY
  HEAVY RAIN PUSHING ACROSS BUCHANAN COUNTY. RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2
  INCHES IS EXPECTED IN MANY LOCATIONS IN THE NEXT 1 TO 3 HOURS
  AND THIS WILL LIKELY CAUSE SOME FLASH FLOODING.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE HURLEY...GRUNDY...
  MAXIE...AND WHITEWOOD.

PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER...HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.

$$

LAT...LON 3705 8207 3708 8201 3712 8201 3715 8188
          3722 8175 3726 8175 3728 8183 3737 8193
          3741 8192 3746 8200 3753 8196 3730 8229
          3712 8215 3706 8212

.END/ZINN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 10:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Buchanan, Dickenson	46 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.