Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 6, 2003, 8:27 PM EDT for Perry County, Ohio. 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 6, 2003, 8:27 PM EDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2003, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 1162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 070027 FFWRLX OHC127-070230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 827 PM EDT SUN JUL 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT... * HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED ACROSS THE AREA AND RUNOFF IS REACHING AREA STREAMS...SUCH AS JONATHAN CREEK AND MOXAHALA CREEK. RAINFALL ESTIMATED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN ABOUT TWO HOURS TIME. * AT 823 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SOME LIGHT RAIN EXITING THE AREA. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE CROOKSVILLE AND MOUNT PERRY. --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. $$ CL
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRLX 070202 FFSRLX OHC127-070230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 955 PM EDT SUN JUL 6 2003 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELED. WATER LEVELS AROUND CROOKSVILLE OF PERRY COUNTY HAVE SUBSIDED. ACCORDING TO THE PERRY COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT...STREETS WERE FLOODED TO A FOOT IN DEPTH...BUT NO HOMES WERE THREATENED. HEAVY RAINS WERE ALSO SEEN AROUND THE GLENFORD AND MOUNT PERRY VICINITY OF NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY AROUND 7 AND 8 OCLOCK SUNDAY EVENING. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT...IN CASE MORE RAIN MOVES TOWARD NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY. REPEATING...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING...THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY...HAS BEEN CANCELED. $$ KTB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Perry | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Morgan, Perry | 26 min |
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.