Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 59, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2003, 7:44 PM EDT for Pocahontas County, Randolph 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 14, 2003, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2003, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pocahontas County, WV, Randolph County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 687 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 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 142350 FFWRLX WVC075-083-150145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 744 PM EDT MON JUL 14 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... POCAHONTAS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 945 PM EDT... * AT 742 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF MILL CREEK IN RANDOLPH COUNTY...AND OVER MUCH OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE CASS SCENIC RAILROAD...MARLINTON...GREEN BANK...DURBIN 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 TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KRLX 150107 FFSRLX WVC075-083-150145- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 853 PM EDT MON JUL 14 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR POCAHONTAS AND SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTIES UNTIL 945 PM EDT... AT 8:53 PM HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONCENTRATED OVER THE SOUTHERN HALF OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY. ELSEWHERE...RAINS HAVE MOVED OUT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY AND DECREASED OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY. RAIN GAUGES REPORT 2 TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 7 PM AND 8:30 PM AROUND THE VALLEY HEAD AREA OF SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY...WHILE RADAR ESTIMATES 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN PARTS OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY BETWEEN 7 PM AND 8:30 PM. THESE AREAS RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL SUNDAY EVENING...AND THE RUNOFF FROM THESE ADDITIONAL RAINS HAVE PROMPTED THE CONTINUANCE OF THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING UNTIL 9:45 PM. --CALL TO ACTION-- EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$ .END/JMV
000 WGUS71 KRLX 150145 FFSRLX WVC075-083-150215- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 943 PM EDT MON JUL 14 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR POCAHONTAS AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAD ENDED ACROSS MOST OF THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 9:45 PM. 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, 8:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 35 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.