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Flash Flood Warning 77, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2003, 5:37 PM EDT for Morgan County, Washington County, Ohio. It was in force for 83 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 15, 2003, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Morgan County, OH, Washington County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 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 152139 FFWRLX OHC115-167-152300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 537 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MORGAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO... * UNTIL 700 PM EDT... * AT 532 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN MORGAN AND WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES...MOVING EAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KRLX 152226 FFSRLX OHC115-152300- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 623 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR MORGAN COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM EDT HAS BEEN CANCELED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS DECREASING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING CANCELED. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
000 WGUS71 KRLX 152302 FFSRLX OHC167-152330- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 701 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY IN OHIO HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 7 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS DECREASING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF 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. $$
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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.