Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003

Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Charleston, WV

June 14, 2003Fayette County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2003, 5:29 PM EDT for Fayette 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
Jun 14, 2003, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
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 21:31 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, 9.5 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 2003-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 103 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2003-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
806 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 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 142134
FFWRLX
WVC019-150030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
529 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT...

* AT 521 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN JUST SOUTHEAST OF THURMOND. RADAR ESTIMATES OVER 2 INCHES IN 
  THE LAST HOUR. 

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE BUFFALO CREEK.

--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.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 3:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXLincoln3 hr
Jun 14, 4:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXTaylor3 hr
Jun 14, 4:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXLogan3 hr
Jun 14, 4:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXGilmer3 hr
Jun 14, 5:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXCabell, Putnam3 hr
Jun 14, 5:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXKanawha3 hr
Jun 14, 5:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXCalhoun3 hr
Jun 14, 7:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWood3 hr
Jun 14, 7:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXDoddridge3 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.