Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 63, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2003, 1:46 PM EDT for Calhoun County, Gilmer County, Roane County, West Virginia. It was in force for 59 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 28, 2003, 1:46 PM EDT (17:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2003, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Roane County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 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 281749 FFWRLX WVC013-021-087-281845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 146 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CALHOUN COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... ROANE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 245 PM EDT... * AT 143 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM NORTHWEST OF SPENCER TO 24 SOUTHEAST OF ARNOLDSBURG... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE SPENCER...MOUNT ZION AND ARNOLDSBURG. --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 TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRLX 281849 FFSRLX WVC013-087-281915- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 244 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ROANE AND CALHOUN COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... THE HEAVY SHOWERS THAT PROMPTED THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAVE MOVED OFF TO THE EAST OF THE REGION. THERE WILL BE OCCASIONAL SHOWERS ACROSS THE REGION THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE AREA REPORTED WATER ACROSS STATE ROUTE 33 IN PLACES AND SOME SECONDARY ROADS IMPASSABLE. MOTORISTS SHOULD CONTINUE TO USE CAUTION AND WATCH FOR WATER COVERED ROADS. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
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.