Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2001, 12:30 PM EDT for Raleigh County, Wyoming County, West Virginia. It was in force for 4 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, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Raleigh County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:34 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 291632 FFWRLX WVC081-109-292030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1230 PM EDT SUN JUL 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RALEIGH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... WYOMING COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 430 PM EDT... * AT 1224 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN THROUGHOUT RALEIGH AND WYOMING COUNTIES. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE BECKLEY...HANOVER INCLUDING ROUTE 52...AND STEELES. <<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. $$
The 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, 11:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 2 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.