Alert archive / Ohio / Flood Watches in 2008
Flood Watch 8, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this flood watch at Aug 5, 2008, 7:44 AM EDT for Jackson County, Mason County, West Virginia; 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2008, 7:44 AM EDT (11:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2008, 1:17 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Jackson County, WV, Mason County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 8:20 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RLX | Jackson | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Ohio, 2008Flood Watches in West Virginia, 2008Every flood watch 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.