Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2001, 2:20 PM EDT for 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 100 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
- May 22, 2001, 2:20 PM EDT (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 100 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McDowell County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Roane County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 221822 FFWRLX WVC047-081-087-109-222000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 220 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... RALEIGH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... ROANE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... WYOMING COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 400 PM EDT... * AT 212 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE REGION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WELCH...SPENCER... PINEVILLE AND BECKLEY. <<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. $$
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, 8:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln | 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, 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.