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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at Dec 13, 2007, 7:46 AM EST for Carter County, Greenup County, Kentucky; Lawrence County, Ohio. It was in force for 119 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 13, 2007, 7:46 AM EST (12:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 13, 2007, 9:45 AM EST
- In force
- 119 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Carter County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, OH
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:47 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, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KRLX 131250
FFWRLX
KYC043-089-OHC087-131445-
/O.NEW.KRLX.FF.W.0004.071213T1246Z-071213T1445Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
746 AM EST THU DEC 13 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
CARTER COUNTY IN KENTUCKY...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...OLIVE HILL...GRAYSON LAKE STATE
PARK...GRAYSON...CARTER CAVES STATE PARK...
GREENUP COUNTY IN KENTUCKY...
LAWRENCE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST OHIO...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...PROCTORVILLE...LAKE VESUVIUS...
IRONTON...COAL GROVE...CHESAPEAKE...
* UNTIL 945 AM EST
* AT 742 AM EST...RADAR AND IFLOWS GAGES INDICATED UP TO AN INCH OF
RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER THE LAST HOUR AND MORE RAIN IS EXPECTED. THIS
RAIN WILL CAUSE RAPID RISE ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS AND CAUSE
BACKUPS ON POOR STORM DRAIN AREAS.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO NAPLES...
OLDTOWN...LOAD...LETITIA...GREENBO LAKE...GESLING AND GREENUP.
PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3835 8323 3872 8301 3875 8288 3858 8282
3875 8266 3884 8265 3884 8257 3878 8258
3867 8237 3857 8229 3843 8234 3840 8257
3850 8267 3846 8275 3820 8284 3819 8305
3827 8317 3821 8328 3823 8330 3833 8334
TIME...MOT...LOC 1246Z 180DEG 0KT 3835 8307
$$
21The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 9:44 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 12:07 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 3 hr |
| Dec 13, 8:11 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RLX | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Morgan, Vinton and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 13, 8:11 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RLX | Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Morgan, Vinton and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Dec 13, 4:24 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | RLX | Meigs | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 2007Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2007Every flash flood warning in 2007
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.