Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2001, 8:36 AM EDT for Lincoln County, West 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
- May 22, 2001, 8:36 AM EDT (12:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2001, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 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 221237 FFWRLX WVC043-221530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 836 AM EDT TUE MAY 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 1130 AM EDT... * AT 834 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES NORTH OF HARTS...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF HAMLIN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE HAMLIN. <<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. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Roane | 39 min |
| May 21, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer | 33 min |
| May 21, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Nicholas, Webster | 47 min |
| May 22, 8:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 3 hr |
| May 22, 8:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Roane | 3 hr |
| May 22, 9:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| May 22, 1:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan | 2 hr |
| May 22, 2:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell, Raleigh, Roane, Wyoming | 100 min |
| May 22, 3:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay | 57 min |
| May 22, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 30 min |
| May 22, 4:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 94 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.