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Flash Flood Warning 82, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Aug 28, 2003, 5:53 PM EDT for Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was in force for 112 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 28, 2003, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 112 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kanawha County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 1180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 282153 FFWRLX WVC039-282345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 553 PM EDT THU AUG 28 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN AND CENTRAL KANAWHA COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 745 PM EDT... * AT 553 PM EDT...THE AIRPORT OBSERVER REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN. STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SISSONVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF SISSONVILLE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE BELLE...CEDAR GROVE... CHARLESTON...CHESAPEAKE...CLENDENIN...COAL FORK...CROSS LANES... DUNBAR...EAST BANK...ELKVIEW...GLASGOW...INSTITUTE...MARMET... NITRO...PINCH...PRATT...SOUTH CHARLESTON...ST. ALBANS AND TORNADO. 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.