Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Watches in 2006
Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Charleston, WV
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Pocahontas | 3 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.