Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 56, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2003, 6:01 PM EDT for Pocahontas County, West Virginia. It was in force for 89 min. 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 13, 2003, 6:01 PM EDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2003, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pocahontas County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 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 132207 FFWRLX WVC075-140000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 601 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... POCAHONTAS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 800 PM EDT... * AT 558 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN AND WESTERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST STORMS ARE MAINLY NORTH AND WEST OF MARLINTON...INCLUDING THE CRANBERRY RIVER...AND THE WEST FORK OF THE GREENBRIER RIVER. THE STORMS ARE DRIFTING TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE CASS SCENIC RAILROAD... GREENBANK AND SNOWSHOE. --CALL TO ACTION-- 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. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KRLX 132307 FFSRLX WVC075-083-140000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 705 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR POCAHONTAS COUNTY UNTIL 8 PM AND RANDOLPH COUNTY UNTIL 730 PM... AT 700 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN MARLINTON AND DURBIN AND WEST TOWARD VALLEY HEAD. THE AREA OF RAIN WAS SLOWLY MOVING NORTH AND EAST AT 20 MPH. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT BETWEEN 2 AND 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AROUND CHEAT BRIDGE AND SOUTHEAST OF SNOWSHOE. AN AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGE ON WARE RIDGE REPORTED OVER AN INCH OF RAIN IN AN HOUR. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...CASS SCENIC RAILROAD...DURBIN...GREENBANK...HUTTONSVILLE...AND SNOWSHOE. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
000 WGUS71 KRLX 132335 FFSRLX WVC075-083-140030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 728 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR POCAHONTAS COUNTY UNTIL 8 PM. THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR RANDOLPH COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... AT 728 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN BETWEEN HILLSBORO AND GREEN BANK IN EASTERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY. THE AREA OF RAIN WAS SLOWLY MOVING NORTH AND EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF UP TO AN INCH PER HOUR ARE FALLING IN ISOLATED POCKETS OF THUNDERSTORMS. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...CASS SCENIC RAILROAD...GREENBANK...HILLSBORO...AND MARLINTON. IN RANDOLPH COUNTY THE HEAVIEST SHOWER WAS NEAR VALLEY HEAD MOVING NORTHWARD. THIS AREA IS NOT MOVING OVER AREAS THAT PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED THE HEAVIEST RAIN. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE IN RANDOLPH COUNTY. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 5:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 113 min |
| Jul 13, 7:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 62 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.