Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001
Flash Flood Warning 90, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2001, 1:27 PM EDT for Fayette County, Nicholas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 5 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, 1:27 PM EDT (17:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, WV, Nicholas County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 291730
FFWRLX
WVC019-067-292230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
127 PM EDT SUN JUL 29 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
NICHOLAS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT...
* AT 124 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
RAIN OVER FAYETTE AND NICHOLAS COUNTIES.
* STREAMS..CREEKS AND THE HEADWATERS OF RIVERS ARE EXPECTED TO
FLOOD...INCLUDING THE THE MEADOW RIVER.
<<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.
$$
L'AT...LON 3784 8090 3790 8078 3809 8091 3825 8048
3848 8081 3839 8094 3827 8123 3797 8137The 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, 12:30 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, 1:34 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.