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Areal Flood Warning 3, NWS Charleston, WV

December 13, 2007Meigs County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this areal flood warning at Dec 13, 2007, 4:24 PM EST for Meigs County, Ohio. It was in force for 6 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: Dec 13, 2007, 4:24 PM EST (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Dec 13, 2007, 10:30 PM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Meigs County, OH

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 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 areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Dec 13, 1:16 PM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 1:16 PM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 13, 3:20 PM EST, 1 hour 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
320 PM EST THU DEC 13 2007

KYZ101>103-105-OHZ066-067-075-076-083>087-VAZ003-004-WVZ005>011-
013>020-024>040-046-047-141000-
GREENUP-CARTER-BOYD-LAWRENCE KY-PERRY-MORGAN-ATHENS-WASHINGTON-
JACKSON OH-VINTON-MEIGS-GALLIA-LAWRENCE OH-DICKENSON-BUCHANAN-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-MCDOWELL-WYOMING-RALEIGH-FAYETTE-
NICHOLAS-WEBSTER-UPSHUR-BARBOUR-POCAHONTAS-RANDOLPH-
320 PM EST THU DEC 13 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST
KENTUCKY...SOUTHEAST OHIO...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WEST VIRGINIA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

MORE RAINFALL AND THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING WILL OCCUR SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY WITH YET ANOTHER SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH. THE
PRECIPITATION COULD BEGIN AS A WINTRY MIX...INCLUDING FREEZING
RAIN...BEFORE CHANGING TO RAIN.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 13, 1:42 PM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 13, 2:11 PM EST, 2 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
211 PM EST THU DEC 13 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0105 PM     FLOOD            HARRISVILLE             39.16N 81.03W
12/13/2007                   RITCHIE            WV   PUBLIC

            STREAMS IN BUILDINGS.
            EVENT TIME UNKNOWN
            SOMETIME BEFORE 105 PM 12/13/2007

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Local storm report, Dec 13, 2:20 PM EST, 2 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
220 PM EST THU DEC 13 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0220 PM     FLOOD
12/13/2007                   DODDRIDGE               WV   DOH

            WV STATE RT 18 AND 23 CLOSED IN SPOTS DUE TO FLOODING
            FROM NEARBY CREEKS EXCEEDING THEIR BANKS

&&

NNNN

Local storm report, Dec 13, 2:20 PM EST, 2 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
220 PM EST THU DEC 13 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0220 PM     FLOOD            WEST UNION         39.30N 80.78W
12/13/2007                   DODDRIDGE      WV  DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            WV STATE RT 18 AND 23 CLOSED IN SPOTS DUE TO FLOODING
            FROM NEARBY CREEKS EXCEEDING THEIR BANKS

&&

NNNN

Local storm report, Dec 13, 2:39 PM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
239 PM EST THU DEC 13 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0220 PM     FLOOD            WEST UNION              39.30N 80.78W
12/13/2007                   DODDRIDGE          WV   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            WV STATE RT 18 AND 23 CLOSED IN SPOTS IN COUNTY DUE TO
            FLOODING FROM NEARBY CREEKS EXCEEDING THEIR BANKS

&&

NWW

Local storm report, Dec 13, 2:42 PM EST, 1 hour 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
242 PM EST THU DEC 13 2007

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0220 PM     FLOOD            GRAFTON                 39.34N 80.02W
12/13/2007                   TAYLOR             WV   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

            NUMEROUS ROADS CLOSED AROUND COUNTY DUE TO NEARBY CREEKS
            EXCEEDING THEIR BANKS.

&&

NWW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 13, 7:33 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Tyler	57 min
Dec 13, 8:03 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Doddridge, Harrison, Pleasants, Ritchie, Tyler	5 hr
Dec 13, 8:11 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wirt, Wood	4 hr
Dec 13, 8:11 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RLX	Jackson, Mason, Wirt, Wood	4 hr
Dec 13, 9:18 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer, Lewis	3 hr
Dec 13, 9:44 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RLX	Cabell, Wayne	3 hr
Dec 13, 11:13 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Lewis	107 min
Dec 13, 12:07 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RLX	Cabell, Calhoun, Gilmer, Jackson, Mason, Pleasants and 4 more	3 hr
Dec 13, 12:56 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RLX	Barbour, Doddridge, Harrison, Lewis, Pleasants, Ritchie and 2 more	2 hr
Dec 13, 4:16 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	RLX	Calhoun, Gilmer	24 hr
Dec 13, 4:37 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RLX	Harrison	16 hr
Dec 13, 7:46 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Lawrence	119 min

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.