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Flash Flood Warning 61, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 10, 2000, 12:32 AM EDT for Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was in force for 6 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 10, 2000, 12:32 AM EDT (04:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 6:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kanawha County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:34 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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 100436 FFWRLX WVC039-101030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV ISSUED BY JACKSON KY 1232 AM EDT THU AUG 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... KANAWHA COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...CHARLESTON...CHESAPEAKE...COAL FORK...CROSS LANES...DUNBAR...MARMET...NITRO...PINCH... SISSONVILLE...SOUTH CHARLESTON...ST. ALBANS * UNTIL 630 AM EDT * AT 1230 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING ARCROSS THE COUNTY. THE RAIN WILL LIKELY LAST THROUGH 200 AM. RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE MOST OF THE NIGHT. THIS WARNING SERVES TO EXTEND THE PREVIOUS WARNING WHICH EXPIRED AT MIDNIGHT. 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. 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. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN CHARLESTON. IF YOU CAN NOT REACH THE CHARLESTON OFFICE...PLEASE CONTACT THE WEATHER OFFICE IN JACKSON KENTUCKY. LAT...LOBN 3839 8188 3809 8147 3826 8123 3858 8151 INGRAM...NWS JACKSON KY FOR THE CHARLESTON WV OFFICE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Kanawha, Putnam | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Putnam | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Wayne | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Fayette, Kanawha | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell, Wyoming | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 45 min |
| Aug 10, 12:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson, Mason, Putnam | 3 hr |
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.