Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003

Flash Flood Warning 42, NWS Charleston, WV

June 19, 2003Meigs County, Ohio; Mason County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 19, 2003, 5:07 PM EDT for Meigs County, Ohio; Mason County, West Virginia. It was in force for 38 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 19, 2003, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

Counties Meigs County, OH, Mason County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2003-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2003-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1342 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 192109
FFWRLX
OHC105-WVC053-192145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
507 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  MASON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  MEIGS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO...

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT...

* AT 500 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER NEW HAVEN...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF POMEROY...MOVING   
  EAST SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.  

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE RACINE AND AREAS ALONG  
  TWO MILE CREEK AND THE OHIO RIVER.

--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 19, 3:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXWashington66 min
Jun 19, 4:16 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXGallia59 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2003Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003

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.