Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2001, 11:59 AM EDT for Boone 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 29, 2001, 11:59 AM EDT (15:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2001, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Boone County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KRLX 291601
FFWRLX
WVC005-291800-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1159 AM EDT SUN JUL 29 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BOONE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 200 PM EDT...
* AT 1154 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY
HEAVY RAIN THROUGHOUT BOONE COUNTY.
* THE MAIN AREAS EFFECTED WILL INCLUDE AROUND MADISON...AND AREAS
WEST AND SOUTH OF MADISON.
<<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 3777 8157 3794 8157 3801 8146 3811 8153
3n818 8165 3822 8165 3823 8172 3815 8193
3805 8197 3803 8191 3797 8196 3794 8180
3787 8178The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 9:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 113 min |
| Jul 29, 11:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 11:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Ritchie, Wirt | 117 min |
| Jul 29, 11:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Webster | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 11:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 12:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Raleigh, Wyoming | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 12:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 2 hr |
| Jul 29, 12:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 1:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette, Nicholas | 5 hr |
| Jul 29, 1:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, McDowell, Mingo | 4 hr |
| Jul 29, 5:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 93 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.