Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 55, NWS Charleston, WV

June 13, 2001Randolph County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 2001, 1:37 PM EDT for Randolph 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: Jun 13, 2001, 1:37 PM EDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Randolph County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 457 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 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 131741
FFWRLX
WVC083-132030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
137 PM EDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLE COMP4 010613 DH1645/PCIRG/DIN15/1.07/1.07/1.07/1.07
.E NAMP4 010613 DH1645/HGIRG/DIN15/2.20/2.20/2.20/2.20
.E NAMP4 010613 DH1645/PCIRG/DIN15/1.19/1.19/1.19/1.19
.A JACP4 010613 DH1735/PCIRG 77.36
.E TOAP4 010613 DH1645/HGIRG/DIN15/1.85/1.85/1.86/1.86
.E TOAP4 010613 DH1645/PCIRG/DIN15/14.20/14.20/14.20/14.20
.E RPAP4 010613 DH1645/PCIRG/DIN15/10.45/10.45/10.45/10.45
.E SLLP4 010613 DH1345/HGIRG/DIN15/5.03/5.03/5.03/5.03/5.03/5.03/5.03
.E1 5.02/5.02/5.02/5.02/5.02/5.01/5.01/5.01/5.01
.E SLLP4 010613 DH1345/PCIRG/DIN15/47.88/47.88/47.88/47.88/47.88/47.88
.E1 47.88/47.88/47.88/47.88/47.88/47.88/47.88/47.88/47.88/47.88
.E CIFP4 010613 DH1645/HGIRG/DIN15/1.02/1.02/1.02/1.02
.E CIFP4 010613 DH1645/PCIRG/DIN15/10.10/10.10/10.10/10.10
.A TRUP4 010613 DH1735/HGIRG 4.35
.A TRUP4 010613 DH1735/PCIRG 57.13
.E SLKP4 010613 DH1345/HGIRG/DIN15/6.33/6.33/6.34/6.33/6.33/6.34/6.34
.E1 6.33/6.33/6.33/6.34/6.33/6.34/6.33/6.34/6.33
.E SLKP4 010613 DH1345/PCIRG/DIN15/62.45/62.45/62.45/62.45/62.45/62.45
.E1 62.45/62.45/62.45/62.45/62.45/62.45/62.45/62.45/62.45/62.45
.E DRAP4 010613 DH1645/PCIRG/DIN15/52.14/52.14/52.14/52.14
.E DRAP4 010613 DH1645/HPIRG/DIN15/1305.83/1305.85/1305.84/1305.84
.A ARCP4 010613 DH1735/PCIRG 31.70
.A ARCP4 010613 DH1735/HPIRG 813.07

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Wood	46 min
Jun 12, 9:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Ritchie, Wirt	27 min
Jun 12, 9:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Ritchie	3 hr
Jun 12, 9:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wirt	3 hr
Jun 13, 2:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Pocahontas	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.