Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2003, 12:16 PM EDT for Jackson County, Ohio. 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
- Jul 1, 2003, 12:16 PM EDT (16:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2003, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 011617 FFWRLX OHC079-011915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1216 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 315 PM EDT... * AT 1207 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JACKSON. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE OAK HILL. 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. $$ HC
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRLX 011756 FFSRLX OHC079-011900- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 155 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR JACKSON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING CANCELED. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$ HC
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.