Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 78, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 2003, 6:28 PM EDT for Pleasants County, West Virginia. It was in force for 92 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, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pleasants County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 152232 FFWRLX WVC073-160000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 628 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PLEASANTS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 800 PM EDT... * AT 625 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER MUCH OF PLEASANTS COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE INDICATED SOUTH AND EAST OF ST. MARYS... ESPECIALLY IN THE CALCUTTA AREA. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE ST. MARYS AND CALCUTTA. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KRLX 152328 FFSRLX WVC073-160000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 725 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PLEASANTS COUNTIES UNTIL 800 PM EDT... AT 7:20 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS WERE CONTINUING OVER MUCH OF PLEASANTS COUNTY...WITH RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 3 TO 5 INCHES SINCE 6 PM IN SOME AREAS. INITIAL REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED...ALTHOUGH NO SPECIFIC DETAILS WERE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE BETWEEN 7:30 PM AND 8 PM. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
000 WGUS71 KRLX 160000 FFSRLX WVC073-160030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 757 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2003 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PLEASANTS COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 8 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL WAS DECREASING ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME FLOODING MAY CONTINUE FOR AWHILE THIS EVENING FROM THE EARLIER RAINS...BUT THE THREAT OF ADDITIONAL 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. $$
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.