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Flash Flood Warning 65, NWS Charleston, WV

August 9, 2003Randolph County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2003, 1:06 PM EDT for Randolph 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: Aug 9, 2003, 1:06 PM EDT (17:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2003, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Randolph County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 678 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 091712
FFWRLX
WVC083-092000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
106 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  RANDOLPH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT...

* AT 104 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN ACROSS WESTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE COALTON...DAILEY AND
  ELKINS.

WEATHER SERVICE RADAR HAS ESTIMATED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN 
HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST HOUR OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN RANDOLPH 
COUNTY.  AREAS IMMEDIATELY AFFECTED ARE AROUND COALTON...PUMPKINTOWN 
AND MABIE.  STREAMS THAT FLOW INTO THE MIDDLE FORK RIVER WILL SHOW 
STRONG RISES AND ROARING CREEK NEAR MABIE WILL ALSO SHOW A STRONG 
RISE AND POSSIBLY FLOW OUT OF ITS BANKS.  THE AREA AROUND KUMBRABOW 
STATE PARK IS ALSO RECEIVING HEAVY RAINFALL AT THIS TIME. 


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.

$$

HC

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KRLX 091850
FFSRLX
WVC083-092000-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
245 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR RANDOLPH COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM 
EDT...

AT 240 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED HEAVY RAIN 
5 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEVERLY...OR 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF 
ELKINS...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE 
BEVERLY...DAILEY...ELKINS...MILL CREEK...AND COALTON.  

MODERATE RAINFALL CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS CENTRAL RANDOLPH COUNTY 
AND THE THREAT FOR STREAMS TO RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS STILL EXISTS.  
THE HARDEST HIT AREAS INCLUDE COALTON...BOWDEN...MABIE...AND 
LOCATIONS JUST NORTH OF KUMBRABOW STATE FOREST.

MOTORISTS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS OF WATER OVER ROADS AND NEVER DRIVE 
ACROSS A ROAD COVERED BY WATER.  KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM SWOLLEN 
STREAMS. 

PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

$$

HC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 7:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Wirt	114 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2003 Every 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.