Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2005, 4:54 PM EDT for Doddridge County, Harrison County, Lewis County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2005, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Doddridge County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:55 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 6:00 PM EDT | FLOOD | Salem, WV | STREET FLOODING |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 282055
FFWRLX
WVC017-033-041-290000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
454 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
HARRISON COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA
DODDRIDGE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA
LEWIS COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT.
* AT 445 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
AREA OF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL
ESTIMATES OF TWO TO THREE INCHES AN HOUR ARE FALLEN IN THIS AREA.
* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH
FLOODING TO OCCUR. SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING
INCLUDE...SALEM...WESTON...JACKSON MILL...STONEWALL JACKSON LAKE...
AVON...BLANDVILLE...JANE LEW...SAINT CLARA...SEDALIA...SMITHBURG
AND WEST MILFORD.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW
LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING.
PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3918 8079 3901 8068 3889 8056 3883 8044
3906 8039 3940 8041 3938 8068
$$
08The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 6:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Gilmer | 116 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.