Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 92, NWS Charleston, WV

July 29, 2001Logan County, McDowell County, Mingo County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 29, 2001, 3:16 PM EDT for Logan County, McDowell County, Mingo 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, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2001-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2001-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 155 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 291920
FFWRLX

WVC045-047-059-292315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
316 PM EDT SUN JUL 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  MINGO COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT...

* AT 250 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT 
  RAINFALL CONTINUES ACROSS THE REGION...WITH ANOTHER HALF AN INCH 
  POSSIBLE IN MANY PLACES. THIS RAINFALL WILL AGGRAVATE FLOODING 
  THAT IS ALREADY OCCURRING AND MANY STREAMS AND CREEKS NEAR 
  BANKFULL WILL CONTINUE TO RISE AND FLOOD. 


* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE WELCH AND LOGAN.

<<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 WATEQR 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 29, 9:52 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMcDowell113 min
Jul 29, 11:12 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXLincoln, Wayne2 hr
Jul 29, 11:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRitchie, Wirt117 min
Jul 29, 11:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWebster4 hr
Jul 29, 11:50 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXMcDowell4 hr
Jul 29, 11:59 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBoone2 hr
Jul 29, 12:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXRaleigh, Wyoming4 hr
Jul 29, 12:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha2 hr
Jul 29, 12:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXLogan, Mingo3 hr
Jul 29, 1:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXFayette, Nicholas5 hr
Jul 29, 1:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas4 hr
Jul 29, 5:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBoone93 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2001Every 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.