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Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Charleston, WV

June 25, 200616 counties in West Virginia; Lawrence County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood watch at Jun 25, 2006, 4:03 AM EDT for 16 counties in West Virginia; Lawrence County, Kentucky. It took effect at Jun 25, 2006, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 36 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 2006, 4:03 AM EDT (08:03 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 25, 2006, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Jun 26, 2006, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
36 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Flood severity
None

Counties Lawrence County, KY, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Clay County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:03 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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 242 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2006-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 51 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2006-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1300 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood watch went out at Jun 25, 1:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 1:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 4:08 PM EDT, 11 hours 55 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
408 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 2006

KYZ101>103-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-252015-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-JACKSON OH-
VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-
408 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

KYZ105-WVZ005>011-013>020-024>032-039-040-252015-
LAWRENCE KY-WAYNE-CABELL-MASON-JACKSON WV-WOOD-PLEASANTS-TYLER-
LINCOLN-PUTNAM-KANAWHA-ROANE-WIRT-CALHOUN-RITCHIE-DODDRIDGE-MINGO-
LOGAN-BOONE-CLAY-BRAXTON-GILMER-LEWIS-HARRISON-TAYLOR-UPSHUR-
BARBOUR-
408 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY AND WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NUMEROUS SUNDAY AND MONDAY.  GIVEN
THE AMOUNT OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...WEAK STEERING WINDS...AND A
SURFACE TROUGH IN THE AREA...RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD EXCEED FLASH
FLOOD GUIDANCE THEREBY LEADING TO HIGH WATER PROBLEMS.  WE WILL BE
MONITORING THE SITUATION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

VAZ003-004-WVZ033>038-046-047-252015-
DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-NICHOLAS-
WEBSTER-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH-
408 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST
VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO FORM AND MOVE SLOWLY ALONG A FRONT
THAT WILL BE NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT.  THERE
MAY BE LOCAL WATER PROBLEMS FROM THE STORMS...ESPECIALLY LATER THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BEFORE LOSS OF HEATING DECREASES STORM
INTENSITIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NUMEROUS SUNDAY AND MONDAY.  GIVEN
THE AMOUNT OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...WEAK STEERING WINDS...AND A
SURFACE TROUGH IN THE AREA...RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD EXCEED FLASH
FLOOD GUIDANCE THEREBY LEADING TO HIGH WATER PROBLEMS.  WE WILL BE
MONITORING THE SITUATION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 1:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXPocahontas3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2006Flash Flood Watches in Kentucky, 2006Every flash flood watch in 2006

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.