Alert archive / Ohio / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 67, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2003, 8:05 PM EDT for Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 85 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, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2003, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 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 100006 FFWRLX OHC167-100130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 805 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 930 PM EDT... * AT 800 PM EDT...WASHINGTON COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES REPORTED ROAD FLOODING IN THE VICINITY OF RENO. EVACUATIONS WERE OCCURRING ALONG THE COAL RUN...AND HIGH WATER WAS ALSO SEEN ON MILL RUN. RAINFALL IS SHOWING A DIMINISHING TREND...BUT RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...RENO AND CORNERVILLE. --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. $$ CL
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KRLX 100046 FFSRLX OHC167-100130- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 845 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY UNTIL 930 PM EDT... AT 845 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT RAIN HAD LIGHTENED UP CONSIDERABLY IN INTENSITY ACROSS EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. RUNOFF INTO AREA CREEKS AND STREAMS FROM EARLIER RAINS WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING PROBLEMS UNTIL 930 PM. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...DEVOLA AND LOWER SALEM. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$ CL
000 WGUS71 KRLX 100131 FFSRLX OHC167-100150- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 930 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED OVER VERY LIGHT RAINFALL WAS OCCURRING OVER WASHINGTON COUNTY. OFFICIALS REPORT THAT FLOOD WATERS WERE RECEDING ACROSS THE COUNTY. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF NEW SERIOUS FLOODING IS OVER. 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
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.