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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2003, 7:45 AM EDT for Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was in force for 75 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
- Jun 16, 2003, 7:45 AM EDT (11:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2003, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 75 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kanawha County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:46 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 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 161153 FFWRLX WVC039-161330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 745 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... KANAWHA COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 9:30 AM EDT... * AT 745 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY HEAVY RAIN BAND ACROSS CENTRAL KANAWHA COUNTY...DRIFTING SLOWLY NORTHWARD. RADAR ESTIMATED RAINFALL RATES OF BETWEEN ONE AND ONE AND A HALF INCHES PER HOUR ARE OCCURRING IN THE BAND. THE NORTHERN HALF OF KANAWHA COUNTY...MAINLY NORTH OF A CROSS LANES...CHARLESTON...CORAL FORK... CEDAR GROVE LINE WILL RECEIVE THE BRUNT OF THE RAIN. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE CLENDENIN...ELKVIEW... ...PINCH...SISSONVILLE AND BLUE CREEK. --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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 115 min |
| Jun 16, 5:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 115 min |
| Jun 16, 9:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Nicholas | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 9:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 10:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boone | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mingo | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Logan | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Mason | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 6:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Putnam | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell | 3 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.