Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2003, 12:46 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
- Jul 1, 2003, 12:46 PM EDT (16:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2003, 3:45 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 16:48 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, 4.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 011646 FFWRLX WVC019-011945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1246 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 345 PM EDT... * AT 1238 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER ANSTED...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF FAYETTEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE BABCOCK STATE PARK... FAYETTEVILLE...GAULEY BRIDGE...HAWKS NEST STATE PARK AND POWELLTON. 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. $$ HC
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRLX 011821 FFSRLX WVC019-011915- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 221 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FAYETTE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAD ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING CANCELED. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$ HC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 2 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.