Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 2003, 5:55 PM EDT for Wood County, West Virginia; Washington County, Ohio. 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
- Aug 8, 2003, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Washington County, OH, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 082156 FFWRLX OHC167-WVC107-090000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 555 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WOOD COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 800 PM EDT... * AT 549 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE OHIO RIVER BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTIES. FLOODING ON STATE ROUTE 31 SOUTH OF WILLIAMSTOWN IN WOOD COUNTY WAS REPORTED. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE BELPRE...MARIETTA... BOAZ...NORTH HILLS...WILLIAMSTOWN AND VIENNA. --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. $$ CL
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRLX 082243 FFSRLX OHC167-WVC107-082330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 642 PM EDT FRI AUG 8 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR SOUTHERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN WOOD COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM EDT... AT 638 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED SOUTH OF THE WARNED AREA...HOWEVER RUNOFF INTO AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS CONTINUES. RADAR ESTIMATES OF BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES WERE OBSERVED NEAR THE OHIO RIVER IN WASHINGTON AND WOOD COUNTIES. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...BELPRE...MARIETTA... BOAZ...NORTH HILLS...VIENNA...WILLIAMSTOWN AND FLEMING. AT 638 PM EDT...A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED FLOODING ON WORTHINGTON CREEK SOUTH OF WILLIAMSTOWN. ADDITIONALLY...POLICE IN WILLIAMSTOWN REPORTED FLOODING ON BRISCOE RUN NEAR CENTRAL...NORTH OF VIENNA. --CALL TO ACTION-- EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$ CL
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2003Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 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.