Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002

Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Charleston, WV

May 26, 2002Fayette County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2002, 5:20 PM EDT for Fayette County, West Virginia. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2002, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
115 min
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 21:22 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, 9.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2002-05-26Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2002-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
1292 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 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 262120
FFWRLX
WVC019-262315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
519 PM EDT SUN MAY 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT...

* AT 518 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER THURMOND...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH AND EAST OF OAK HILL.

.

--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...WHEN YOU CAN DO
SO SAFELY.

$$

LAT...LON 3789 8125 3782 8097 3796 8077 3815 8094

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 5:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXLogan113 min
May 26, 5:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXLogan110 min
May 26, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXFayette30 min
May 26, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone24 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.