Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003

Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Charleston, WV

September 19, 2003Pocahontas County, Randolph County, West Virginia

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Sep 19, 2003, 12:42 AM EDT for Pocahontas County, Randolph County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 19, 2003, 12:42 AM EDT (04:42 UTC)
Expired: Sep 19, 2003, 3:45 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Pocahontas County, WV, Randolph County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:45 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 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 391 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 589 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 190448
FFWRLX
WVC075-083-190745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
1242 AM EDT FRI SEP 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  POCAHONTAS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...
  RANDOLPH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 345 AM EDT...

* AT 1240 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND IFLOWS GAGES   
  INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY AND            
  NORTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTY.  RAINFALL AMOUNTS AVERAGED BETWEEN 2.50   
  TO 3.00 INCHES OF RAIN.  AN ADDITIONAL 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE     
  DURING THE NEXT 3 HOURS AND THIS IS ENOUGH TO CAUSE QUICK RISES AND  
  FLOODING ON STREAMS AND CREEKS.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE JOB AND DURBIN.

--CALL TO ACTION-- BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER
TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH
FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE
FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER
BEGINS RISING.

--CALL TO ACTION-- STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR ANY
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

$$

SIKORA

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KRLX 190644
FFSRLX
WVC075-083-190745-
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
232 AM EDT FRI SEP 19 2003


...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR RANDOLPH AND POCAHONTAS         
   COUNTIES UNTIL 3:45 AM EDT SATURDAY...

RAINFALL AMOUNTS FROM TROPICAL STORM ISABEL RANGED BETWEEN 2.50 TO 
3.50 IN EASTERN RANDOLPH AND NORTHERN POCAHONTAS COUNTIES.  REPORTS 
OF AT LEAST 2 FEET OF WATER WAS REPORTED OVER ROUTE 29 NEAR JOB BY 
THE RANDOLPH COUNTY OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES. 

THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS LIFTED NORTHWARD AND LIGHT RAIN SHOULD 
CONTINUE OFF AND ON THROUGHOUT THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.  THIS RAIN 
WILL BE LIGHT IN NATURE AND CONDITIONS SHOULD START TO IMPROVE BY 
DAWN.  


--- CALL TO ACTION --- BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS
HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS
SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS
OR UPDATES.

$$

SIKORA

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2003 Every 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.