Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2002, 6:34 PM EDT for McDowell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 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 3, 2002, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2002, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County McDowell County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 1126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 894 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 032234 FFWRLX WVC047-040130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 634 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 930 PM EDT... * AT 626 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN JUST EAST OF WAR...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WELCH... WITH A MOVEMENT NEARLY STATIONARY. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE GARY...ELBERT... SKYGUSTY...AND CUCUMBER. STREAMS AND CREEKS CONTINUE TO HAVE DEBRIS IN THEM THIS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING AT A FASTER RATE. STREAMS SUCH AS BIG CREEK...RIGHT AND LEFT FORK...AND THE LONG BRANCH HAVE BEEN HIT THE HARDEST. RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD EASILY TOP TWO INCHES WHICH IS ENOUGH TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. --CALL TO ACTION-- STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR ANY FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. 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.
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRLX 040034 FFSRLX WVC047-040130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 835 PM EDT WED JUL 3 2002 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MCDOWELL COUNTY CONTINUES UNTIL 930 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO FIRE UP IN THE WARM AND HUMID ATMOSPHERE. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES OVER TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS EASTERN MCDOWELL COUNTY...WHILE AMOUNTS LOWER TO AROUND AN INCH OVER WESTERN SECTIONS. THE BULK OF MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN HAS SHIFTED TO THE WEST...HOWEVER MORE IS DEVELOPING ACROSS WYOMING COUNTY AND CURRENT STORM MOTION HAS THEM AIMING FOR MCDOWELL COUNTY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM THESE CELLS SHOULD BE LESS THAN A HALF AN INCH...WITH ISOLATED HIGHER AMOUNTS. NO REPORTS OF FLOODING OTHER THAN NORMAL LOW SPOTS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS HAS BEEN RECEIVED. --- 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 IMMEDIATELY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 39 min |
| Jul 3, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 32 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.