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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 2, 2002, 7:36 PM EDT for McDowell County, West Virginia; Buchanan County, Virginia. It was in force for 6 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
- May 2, 2002, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2002, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buchanan County, VA, McDowell County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 317 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 382 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 418 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 022336 FFWRLX VAC027-WVC047-030530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 737 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BUCHANAN COUNTY IN VIRGINIA... MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 130 AM EDT... * THE HEAVIEST OF THE RAINFALL HAD ENDED ACROSS THE AREA...BUT RUNOFF WAS REACHING AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS CAUSING...RAPID RISES. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE GRUNDY...HURLY...IAEGER AND WELCH. --CALL TO ACTION-- THIS IS A SERIOUS SITUATION. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER IS RISING. 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. $$ .END/TRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:00 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 30 min |
| May 2, 1:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 26 min |
| May 2, 2:06 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 24 min |
| May 2, 11:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan | 37 min |
| May 2, 11:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mingo | 31 min |
| May 2, 11:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 40 min |
| May 2, 11:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 3 hr |
| May 2, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 23 min |
| May 2, 1:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 3 hr |
| May 2, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 37 min |
| May 2, 3:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 3 hr |
| May 2, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | McDowell | 46 min |
| May 2, 4:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | McDowell | 3 hr |
| May 2, 6:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 3 hr |
| May 2, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Dickenson | 38 min |
| May 2, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Buchanan | 34 min |
| May 2, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Floyd | 31 min |
| May 2, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Dickenson | 43 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.