Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 66, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2003, 7:51 PM EDT for Wirt County, West Virginia. It was in force for 114 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
- Aug 9, 2003, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2003, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wirt County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 092353 FFWRLX WVC105-100145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 751 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WIRT COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 945 PM EDT... * AT 748 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 7 OCLOCK NORTH OF ELIZABETH...NEAR NEWARK. UP TO ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE. ANYWHERE IN WIRT COUNTY. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...ELIZABETH AND NEWARK. --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. $$ CL
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KRLX 100030 FFSRLX WVC105-100130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 830 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WIRT COUNTY UNTIL 945 PM EDT... AT 826 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAINFALL WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD...AWAY FROM THE HARDEST HIT AREAS OF WIRT COUNTY. DOWNPOURS CONTINUE ACROSS ZACKVILLE AND PEEWEE. WIRT COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT THAT NEWARK ROAD AND ROUTE 14 HAVE BEEN CLOSED. OTHER ROAD CLOSURES ARE EXPECTED AS WELL. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...ELIZABETH...PALESTINE... PEEWEE AND MORRISTOWN. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$ CL
000 WGUS71 KRLX 100147 FFSRLX WVC105-100210- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 947 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WIRT COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS ENDING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. THE STATE POLICE AT ELIZABETH REPORTED RECEDING FLOOD WATERS IN THE COUNTY. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE FOR A SHORT PERIOD...BUT THE THREAT OF NEW SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$ CL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 1:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 3 hr |
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.