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Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 27, 2000, 6:44 PM EDT for Braxton County, West Virginia. It was in force for 31 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, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Braxton County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 272245 FFWRLX WVC007-272315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 644 PM EDT SUN AUG 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BRAXTON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 715 PM EDT... * AT 641 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN SOUTHWEST OF GASSAWAY AND SUTTON. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SUTTON AND GASSAWAY. <<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 ABA*NDONED 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 3862 8101 3849 8085 3874 8049 3890 8070
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 25 min |
| Aug 27, 6:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 63 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.