Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 53, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2003, 9:53 PM EDT for Lincoln 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 9, 2003, 9:53 PM EDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2003, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 907 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KRLX 100153 FFWRLX WVC043-100445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 953 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 1245 AM EDT... * AT 945 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER HAMLIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE ALUM CREEK...MUD... RANGER...WEST HAMLIN AND BRANCHLAND. 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER PARTS OF LINCOLN COUNTY THIS EVENING AND MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED. WATER HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER THE ROADS NEAR BRANCHLAND AND RANGER. STREAMS COULD REMAIN OUT OF THEIR BANKS FOR SEVERAL HOURS CLOSING ROADS AND THREATENING HOMES. 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. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. 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. $$ HC
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRLX 100441 FFSRLX WVC043-100515- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1238 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 12:45 AM THURSDAY MORNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH 4:30 AM EDT THURSDAY. WHILE THIS AREA OF RAIN HAS DIMINISHED...MORE SHOWERS MAY DEVELOP TOWARD MORNING...WHICH COULD CAUSE MORE FLOODING PROBLEMS...THUS THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$ .END/JMV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 9:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Jul 10, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Wayne | 25 min |
| Jul 10, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam, Wayne | 32 min |
| Jul 10, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Jackson, Kanawha | 30 min |
| Jul 10, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone, Kanawha, Roane | 31 min |
| Jul 10, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay | 33 min |
| Jul 10, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton, Nicholas | 27 min |
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.