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Flash Flood Warning 70, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 11, 2003, 12:19 PM EDT for Ritchie County, Wirt County, West Virginia. It was in force for 56 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 11, 2003, 12:19 PM EDT (16:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2003, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ritchie County, WV, Wirt County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:23 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 303 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 594 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 111623 FFWRLX WVC085-105-111715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1219 PM EDT MON AUG 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RITCHIE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... EASTERN WIRT COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 115 PM EDT... * AT 1213 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHEASTERN WIRT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARRISVILLE. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. --CALL TO ACTION-- EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...AND HIGHWAYS. 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. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRLX 111724 FFSRLX WVC085-105-111815- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 122 PM EDT MON AUG 11 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR RITCHIE AND EASTERN WIRT COUNTIES HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... HEAVY RAIN FELL EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS SOUTHERN RITCHIE COUNTY AND NORTHERN WIRT COUNTY. SOME AREAS HIT THE HARDEST INCLUDE THE HUGHES RIVER WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA NEAR CISCO AND GIRTA. A RADAR ESTIMATED 2 INCHES HAVE FALLEN ACROSS THIS AREA. AS A RESULT...PONDING OF LOW LYING AREAS MAY STILL BE POSSIBLE. --CALL TO ACTION-- STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 1:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Calhoun | 85 min |
| Aug 11, 3:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Tyler | 67 min |
| Aug 11, 6:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Randolph | 56 min |
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.