Alert archive / West Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 2008
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2008, 4:36 PM EDT for Tucker County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2008, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2008, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Tucker County, WV
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 KPBZ 132036
FFWPBZ
WVC093-132330-
/O.NEW.KPBZ.FF.W.0021.080813T2036Z-080813T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
436 PM EDT WED AUG 13 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN TUCKER COUNTY IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA...
* UNTIL 730 PM EDT
* AT 434 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM REPORTED OVER THE WARNED AREA.
ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE IN THE
WARNED AREA.
PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING
TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772.
LAT...LON 3897 7941 3896 7946 3897 7947 3897 7952
3898 7958 3912 7959 3915 7932 3910 7934
3909 7931 3907 7929 3898 7933 3896 7935
3896 7938
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS71 KPBZ 132128
FFSPBZ
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
528 PM EDT WED AUG 13 2008
WVC093-132330-
/O.CON.KPBZ.FF.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080813T2330Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
TUCKER WV-
528 PM EDT WED AUG 13 2008
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM EDT FOR
TUCKER COUNTY...
AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT MOST OF THE HEAVY RAINS HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA.
HOWEVER...THE THREAT FOR FLOODING HAS NOT ENDED.
LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ELK AND
BLACKWATER FALLS...AND BLACKBIRD KNOB TRAIL NEAR THE RED CREEK CAMP
GROUNDS.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE
BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO
AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY
DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL
ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED
ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN.
LAT...LON 3897 7941 3896 7946 3897 7947 3897 7952
3898 7958 3912 7959 3915 7932 3910 7934
3909 7931 3907 7929 3898 7933 3896 7935
3896 7938
$$Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2008Every flash flood warning in 2008
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.