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Flash Flood Warning 86, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Sep 21, 2003, 5:53 PM EDT for Randolph County, Upshur County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 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 21, 2003, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Randolph County, WV, Upshur County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 212156 FFWRLX WVC083-097-220000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 553 PM EDT SUN SEP 21 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... RANDOLPH COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... UPSHUR COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 800 PM EDT... * AT 548 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 8 MILES WEST OF COALTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUCKHANNON. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 2 TO 2.5 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE LAST HOUR AND A HALF. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG THE LAUREL RUN AND JACKSON FORK IN UPSHUR COUNTY AND LONG RUN...MIDDLE FORK RIVER AND HIER LICK RUN SHOULD BE EXTREMELY ALERT TO RAPIDLY RISING STREAMS. 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. $$ HC
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KRLX 212337 FFSRLX WVC083-097-220000- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 733 PM EDT SUN SEP 21 2003 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM THIS EVENING FOR UPSHUR AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES HAS BEEN CANCELED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAD ENDED ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING. SOME MINOR FLOODING MAY CONTINUE...BUT THE THREAT OF SERIOUS FLOODING IS ENDING. THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING CANCELED. PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. $$
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.