Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 73, NWS Charleston, WV

July 26, 2001Fayette County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 26, 2001, 2:02 PM EDT for Fayette 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: Jul 26, 2001, 2:02 PM EDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2001, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Fayette County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 261817
FFWRLX

WVC019-262100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...RETRANSMITTED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
202 PM EDT THU JUL 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT...

* NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS 
 ...AND POSSIBLY A THUNDERSTORM...WHICH WILL BE MOVING THROUGH 
 FAYETTE COUNTY DURING THE AFTERNOON. RAINFALL AMOUNTS DURING THE 
 AFTERNOON OF 2 OR MORE INCHES IN SOME PLACES WILL BRING MANY 
 STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE:
  FAYETTEVILLE...BABCOCK STATE PARK...PAX...AND MOUNT HOPE.

<<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.

$$

LAT...LON 3798 8139 3796 8133 3790 8130 3784 8105
          3783 8094 3787 8075 3796 8081 3799 8078
          3802 8078 3809 8090 3813 8089 3817 8094
          3820 8096 3823 8103 3821 8108 3826 8123
          3819 8133

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 12:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Raleigh	3 hr
Jul 26, 2:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Putnam	3 hr
Jul 26, 3:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Raleigh	3 hr
Jul 26, 3:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Nicholas	3 hr
Jul 26, 4:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Fayette	3 hr
Jul 26, 6:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Raleigh	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.