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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 16, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT for Cabell 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 16, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2003, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cabell County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 162305 FFWRLX WVC011-170200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 700 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CABELL COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT... * AT 655 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTH CENTRAL CABELL COUNTY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MILTON. * AREAS INCLUDE HOWELL AND ROUTE 8 AREAS. --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.
| 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, 7:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 75 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 |
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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.