Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 46, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2003, 2:23 PM EDT for Jackson County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 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, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2003, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 195 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 011823 FFWRLX WVC035-012030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 223 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 430 PM EDT... * AT 218 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES SOUTH OF KENNA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF SISSONVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE MIDDLE FORK. 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. $$ HC
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRLX 012017 FFSRLX WVC035-107-012115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 417 PM EDT TUE JUL 1 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR JACKSON AND WOOD COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVIER RAINFALL HAD ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED COUNTIES...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING HAS ENDED. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$ HC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 12:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wood | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash 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.