Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Charleston, WV

July 8, 2001Doddridge County, Harrison County, Tyler County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2001, 5:08 AM EDT for Doddridge County, Harrison County, Tyler County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 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: Jul 8, 2001, 5:08 AM EDT (09:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2001, 7:15 AM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Doddridge County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Tyler County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 376 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 080915
FFWRLX

WVC017-033-095-081115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
508 AM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DODDRIDGE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  SOUTHERN HARRISON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  TYLER COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 715 AM EDT...

* AT 5 O'CLOCK...LOCALIZED RAINS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES HAVE FALLEN.
  MORE THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS ARE LIKELY THROUGH DAWN...BEFORE
  DIMINISHING. SMALL STREAMS HAVE BEEN REPORTED OVER SECTIONS OF 
  SECONDARY ROADS.    

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WEST UNION...
   KINCHELOE...AND JOSEPHS MILLS.

<<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.

<<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 WI$NDS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.

$$

LAT...LON 3960 8089 3949 8106 3917 8074 3912 8031
          3928 8039

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 8:48 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Fayette	117 min
Jul 8, 9:43 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Raleigh	2 hr
Jul 8, 10:21 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wyoming	3 hr
Jul 8, 10:42 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Fayette	2 hr
Jul 8, 12:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Kanawha	2 hr
Jul 8, 2:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	McDowell	2 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.