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Flash Flood Warning 38, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 2002, 3:59 PM EDT for Boone County, Logan County, West Virginia. It was in force for 61 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
- Jul 27, 2002, 3:59 PM EDT (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boone County, WV, Logan County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 632 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 271959 FFWRLX WVC005-045-272100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 357 PM EDT SAT JUL 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BOONE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... LOGAN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 500 PM EDT... * AT 353 PM EDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS OCCURRING OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN BOONE AND EXTREME NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTIES. AREAS ALONG THE SPRUCE FORK SHOULD MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. --CALL TO ACTION-- A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY AND SEEK 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 11:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Webster | 27 min |
| Jul 27, 12:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 108 min |
| Jul 27, 1:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 86 min |
| Jul 27, 1:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 2 hr |
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.