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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 2003, 11:05 AM EDT for Randolph 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
- May 10, 2003, 11:05 AM EDT (15:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2003, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:08 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 1311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 101508 FFWRLX WVC083-101800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1105 AM EDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RANDOLPH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 200 PM EDT... * AT 1058 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF CASS SCENIC RAILROAD. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE VALLEY HEAD. --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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 42 min |
| May 9, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 45 min |
| May 9, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun | 26 min |
| May 10, 3:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Putnam | 32 min |
| May 10, 4:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Roane | 29 min |
| May 10, 4:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wirt, Wood | 24 min |
| May 10, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 33 min |
| May 10, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun, Roane | 30 min |
| May 10, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 25 min |
| May 10, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Gilmer | 33 min |
| May 10, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Lincoln | 31 min |
| May 10, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 36 min |
| May 10, 2:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 3 hr |
| May 10, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 27 min |
| May 10, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan, Wyoming | 30 min |
| May 10, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha | 23 min |
| May 10, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh, Wyoming | 52 min |
| May 10, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wirt | 31 min |
| May 10, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 34 min |
| May 10, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Mason | 27 min |
| May 10, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Cabell | 29 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.