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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Charleston, WV

July 3, 2004Lawrence County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jul 3, 2004, 2:20 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Ohio. 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: Jul 3, 2004, 2:20 PM EDT (18:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Lawrence County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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: 59 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1157 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 031821
FFWRLX
OHC087-032115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
220 PM EDT SAT JUL 3 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT...

* AT 215 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY
  RAIN OVER AND ARABIA. STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE    
  NORTH. 

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE ARABIA...ELKINS CREEK 
  AND ARRON CREEK.

--CALL TO ACTION-- A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS
IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER
GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD
TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY
FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. IF YOUR VEHICLE STALLS, ABANDON IT IMMEDIATELY
AND SEEK HIGHER GROUND.

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 031857
FFSRLX
OHC087-032115-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
254 PM EDT SAT JUL 3 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR LAWRENCE COUNTY IN OHIO
   UNTIL 515 PM EDT...

AT 254 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY 
RAIN HAD FALLEN AROUND AND SOUTH OF ARABIA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE 
MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE....ARABIA...ELKINS 
CREEK...ARRON CREEK...WILGUS...AID...AND MANKER.

--CALL TO ACTION-- STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

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 032056
FFSRLX
OHC087-032130-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
454 PM EDT SAT JUL 3 2004

...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CANCELLED FOR LAWRENCE COUNTY IN OHIO...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THE RAINFALL HAD ENDED 
ACROSS THE WARNED AREA...AND THE FLOOD THREAT WAS DIMINISHING.  
THUS...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS BEING CANCELED. ADDITIONAL 
THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON...SO REMAIN AWARE OF 
WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO ACT IF A FLOOD WARNING IS 
ISSUED.

--CALL TO ACTION-- STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

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

$$

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2004 Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.