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Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Charleston, WV

August 27, 2000Calhoun County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 2000, 6:12 PM EDT for Calhoun County, West Virginia. It was in force for 63 min. 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 27, 2000, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired
Aug 27, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Calhoun County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-08-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 618 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2000-08-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
618 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
8 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 272213
FFWRLX
WVC013-272315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
612 PM EDT SUN AUG 27 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CALHOUN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT...

* AT 610 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN NEAR ARNOLDSBURG...AND SOUTHERN CALHOUN COUNTY.

.

<<CALL TO ACTION>> 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.

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

$$

LAT...LON 3892 8102 3877 8118 3868 8116 3863 8109
          3872 8099 3879 8107

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRoane34 min
Aug 27, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne25 min
Aug 27, 6:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBraxton31 min

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.