Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 7, 2002, 10:50 AM EDT for Calhoun County, Gilmer County, Roane 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
- May 7, 2002, 10:50 AM EDT (14:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2002, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Roane County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 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 071450 FFWRLX WVC013-021-087-071745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1040 AM EDT TUE MAY 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CALHOUN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... GILMER COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... ROANE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 145 PM EDT... * BETWEEN ONE AND A HALF AND THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN DURING THE MORNING HOURS ACROSS NORTHERN ROANE..CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CALHOUN..AND SOUTHERN GILMER COUNTIES. STREAMS AND CREEKS ARE RISING RAPIDLY WITH A FEW ALREADY REPORTED AT OR JUST OVER BANKFULL. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS..SOME CONTAINING HEAVY RAINS..WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SPENCER. --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. $$ LAT...LON 3864 8154 3867 8104 3889 8077 3891 8149
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas, Webster | 108 min |
| May 7, 6:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha, Putnam | 3 hr |
| May 7, 6:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Nicholas, Webster | 3 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.