Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 22, 2001, 4:26 PM EDT for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 94 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, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pocahontas County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 222027 FFWRLX WVC075-222200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 426 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... POCAHONTAS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 600 PM EDT... * AT 420 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THE AREA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE MARLINTON...GREENBANK AND CASS SCENIC RAILROAD. <<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. $$ TRM
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, 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 |
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.